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'Office Space' I loved doing.

Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.

When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.

Karl Malden was quite a mentor. He taught me things he had learned from being in front of a camera so long.

For a stage actor to be there with the words and the creator of the words - it doesn't get much better than that.

As soon as you start figuring out what you're going to do, something will interrupt it.

You never know, when you commit to something, what else could have been. I'm so bored with that concept anymore. 'If only I didn't do this, I could have done this.' It was in front of me, they asked me to do it, and it seemed like good timing.

No matter what era you're looking at - war affects things in so many different ways.

'Fatal Vision' was basically the first thing I did on camera.

It seems you can ask any friend, any relative, and they'll be able to tell you about someone they know with autism.

When you're in a movie with Will Ferrell, well, it's time to at least sometimes throw the script away. And that character in 'Talladega Nights' I found a lot easier to kind of riff with because I related to it more, those kind of Southern, almost rednecky guys. That's a culture that I'm familiar with, that makes sense for me to spew.

In 1993, I was working at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago.

You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.

I was initially a leading man, but only on television.

I was a little nervous coming in mostly because my first scene was with Martin Sheen, who I'm a huge fan of.

Good decisions don't make life easy, but they do make it easier.

If someone comes up to me, 90 percent of the time it's about Office Space.

Let’s focus on where you could end up, not where you were or are.

I think it had something to do with my love of music, especially rock music.

I still like to listen to the people that I came of age on.

I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don't have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type.