I always say I want to eventually shift my career to directing and writing.

It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do.

Germany's amongst my top three places in the world I'd like to live.

I want to meet the man who saw a turtle and said, "People will LOVE the ninja version of that."

I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.

If you're trying to make someone happy, you gotta try and make them happy.

New Orleans is like the bad-kid island in 'Pinocchio.'

The great thing about 'Allen Gregory' is that we try to make it really questionable that the things he says have happened, have really happened. We like that ambiguity.

I don't like to say mean things about people's hard work.

I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest - things that you observe instead of crazy abstract things, you know.

I mean, being shot in slow motion doing cocaine by Martin Scorsese is, like, maybe every actor's dream. Nothing will compare to it. Except maybe having kids.

Just be kind to be wise and to be intelligent.

I am not a glutton-I am an explorer of food.

My problem is that people get intimidated by someone big and beautiful like me. They hate to think I can be smart as well.

Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good.

Speak to the suffering, and you will never lack an audience. There is a broken heart in every crowd.

Sure God's all powerful, but does he have lips?

This is why you must love life: one day you're offering up your social security number to the Russian Mafia; two weeks later you're using the word calve as a verb.

Freedom is the only real doctor of the sick slaves; and a good conscience, of the ill masters!

I don't get caught in the match-ups, trying to outduel somebody. It's a team game.

I'm neither sexy nor a star.