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But I can only take so much TV, because there is so much advice. I find people will preach about virtually anything - your diet, how to live your life, how to improve your golf. The lot. I have always had a thing against the Mister Know-It-Alls.

When you see grown men near to tears because they've missed hitting a little white ball into a hole from three feet, it makes you laugh.

Yeah, I think that's sort of the American way. And it's also the Polish way, it turns out.

I realized the more fun I had, the more relaxed I was working, the better I worked.

There are people who drove me crazy, but they got the job done. And when I see that person again, I nod my head. Respect.

Somewhere there's a score being kept, so you have an obligation to live life as well as you can, be as engaged as you can.

I think all phases of one's career are serious if you take it seriously no matter if you are doing high profile dramatic pieces or not.

While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille, died. My father had already died, but I always had some attachment to our big family while she was alive. It seems strange to say now that I felt so lonely, yet I did.

Here's the thing, you just have to drive a lot faster, and if you don't get there, we're both fired.

I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do.

Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.

'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award.

I'm a nut, but not just a nut.

I think midlife crisis is just a point where people's careers have reached some plateau and they have to reflect on their personal relationships.

I don't want to be that guy mumbling into his drink at a bar.

I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job.

Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.

In Japan, you have no idea what they are saying, and they can't help you either. Nothing makes any sense. They're very polite, but you feel like a joke is being played on you the entire time you're there.

People say I'm difficult and sometimes that's a badge of honour.

No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.

Harold Ramis and I together did the ‘National Lampoon Show’ off Broadway, ‘Meatballs,’ ‘Stripes,’ ‘Caddyshack,’ ‘Ghostbusters’ and ‘Groundhog Day.’ He earned his keep on this planet. God bless him.