The thing is, I’ve always tried to create transcendent moments. Moments that take people away from their concerns. Heaven to me is when people find a way to become so involved with life that they’re no longer concerned for the future.
Every character is a baby. You can’t choose between them. If you can, you didn’t do your job. You have to fall in love with every character.
It’s time to P-A-R-T-Why? Because I gotta!
Charles Dickens was an incredibly cinematic writer. He wrote this one hundred years before there were movies. He writes very thematically. It is amazing.
Kids need to know they’re the most important thing in the world to you, and if that means quitting your job to prove it, then you have to prove it.
Don’t worry if you miss your cue, because there are always doors opening. They keep opening.
Movie offers are out there for me, I just don’t hear them yet.
I would visualize things coming to me. It would just make me feel better. Visualization works if you work hard. That’s the thing. You can’t just visualize and go eat a sandwich.
Comedic actors can be looked at as a lower form because we have to put ourselves in a lower place than most of the audience. I think lofty emotions are somehow considered more special. The best stories in the world to me are the ones that elicit a real emotion, but have humour.
Everybody expects the fairy tale – you’re going to be together forever with somebody. I don’t really subscribe to that. I’d love that to happen if that happened, but ten years is enough. Ten years is a good thing with somebody, I think. It’s a nice thing. A lot of good love can happen in ten years.
As far as I’m concerned, everything bad that happens in the world stems from the same place, they’re people who don’t feel important.
I don’t hate you for loving you. I just hate my heart for choosing someone like you.
I hate Christmas. I do think it is odd that I have wound up playing these two iconic Christmas haters. It is the same story, in a way. Scrooge is the original Grinch. I think I am perfectly suited, because I have had some dark Christmases.
I can be your best friend or your worst enemy. You seem to prefer the latter.
When someone you love dies, you don’t lose them all at once. You lose them in pieces over time, like how the mail stops coming.
My psychiatrist says I have a messiah complex. But I forgave him.
Magicians are definitely more arrogant. They’re kind of like “Abra Kadabra, you’re an idiot,” they don’t let you in on the joke. Comedians, you’re always in on the joke unless it’s Andy Kaufman.
Isn’t it cool when the days that are supposed to feel good, actually do?
I think I could go away tomorrow. I’ve already accomplished something. It’s such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.
I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.