You shouldn't eat red meat, but you shouldn't make resolutions you can't keep..

Even if people end up doing awful things, you can empathize with their motives when you know them. When you get to know the person, you can understan….

In the end, the thing that really stays with you is not that you were clever enough to connect a sketch to another sketch, but what really sticks wit….

My godfather was a Chicago policeman, and I've always looked at law enforcement as a challenging and interesting job..

With acting, if a friend asked me to be in a movie or TV show, there's a lot of things on my résumé I did without reading them or knowing what they w….

I don't think the sketch on its own is a great sketch..

Acting in particular is a fun job when you have a good script. I don't know about acting when you don't have a great script. I'm gonna say that's not….

When you're 20 you can put a ton of old-age prosthetics on and be an old guy, but when you're 70 you can't play a 20-year-old..

Directing is probably the best job, but acting is really, really great. It's like a fun vacation that you get paid for..

The laugh is what trumps everything..

It's fun to discover things. I wouldn't want everything laid out, simply and too obviously..

In acting, you're only responsible for your part. When you're directing, the load is on your shoulders, so you have to feel a strong connection to th….

The worst thing is to read bad reviews and go, "Yeah, I agree.".

We're all real people with moments of intense honesty and pathos and humanity. We all experience that, whether you're comedic or not..

I think everybody has a public persona. We all present ourselves..

If you're committed enough, you can make any story work. I once told a woman I was Kevin Costner, and it worked because I believed it..

I love any scene where there's a physical confrontation. It reminds me that I'm in show business and I play pretend for a living..

I pretty much live about 10 minutes from my office. I have two kids, and I have about 8 projects that I'm working on, so I basically just get up and ….

I felt my personal life was not what it should be. It had nothing to do with Mr. Show - I'm monstrously appreciative and understand what it did for m….

You get to use everything you learned in movie business. You talk to actors, if you do it right - and I haven't always done it right - you should be ….

If you surround me with darkness, suddenly, I am "somewhat fun.".