The automatic things you do are basically those things that keep you from doing the better things you need to do.
People only talk about what a joyous experience it is, but there is terror: Your life, as you know it, is over. It’s over the day that child is born. It’s over, and something completely new starts.
I’ve never made any horrible, horrible movies. If you don’t ruin your reputation, you can always get work.
Every moment that you share someone else’s pain, feel what they feel, makes you more human.
Everyone needs to take a vacation from the sort of automatic things you do.
I went to Second City, where you learned to make the other actor look good so you looked good and National Lampoon, where you had to create everything out of nothing, and SNL, where you couldn’t make any mistakes, and you learned what collaboration was.
Yeah, I think that’s sort of the American way. And it’s also the Polish way, it turns out.
Well, the past is gone, I know that. The future isn’t here yet, whatever it’s going to be. So, all there is, is this. The present. That’s it.
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.
I don’t want to be that guy mumbling into his drink at a bar.
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 midlife crisis is just a point where people’s careers have reached some plateau and they have to reflect on their personal relationships.
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.
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 count on the kindness of strangers.
It’s a lot of work to read a crummy script.
You know how funerals are not for the dead, they’re for the living? Bachelor parties are not for the groom, they’re for the uncommitted.
My first movie, I got nominated for a Canadian Oscar-for Meatballs. For MEATBALLS. And who am I up against? George C. Scott. So he wins the award and I stand up and go, ‘That’s it-let’s get the hell outta here.’
Melancholy is kind of sweet sometimes, I think. It’s not a negative thing. It’s not a mean thing. It’s just something that happens in life, like autumn.