I like smart jokes, I like dumb jokes, and I like dumb jokes done smartly.

Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded.

Austin sounds a little bit like Aston Martin, which is the type of car James Bond would drive.

Having a kid is like falling in love for the first time when you're 12, but every day.

Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish.

Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again.

My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.

You can't think of risks. I have nothing to lose. You either make something that you like, or you don't, and you throw it to the universe.

Comedy and sausages are the two things that if you know how they're made they affect the appetite.

It's hard to be super full of yourself in Canada. If there was a motto of Canada, it would be, "Who do you think you are, eh?"

I still believe that at any time the no-talent police will come and arrest me.

Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.

Education is the civil rights issue of our generation.

When you're doing a big-budget movie and you're four on the call sheet, you've got a lot of free time.

I wish I was old Hollywood.

Women were afraid of me, they were scared to death. But I always say be yourself, if you're funny then let your sense of humor go there. I mean there's no sense hiding what you feel.

I don't feel a lack of hope. It's just disappointment that after all these years we're still fighting meaningless wars for a handful of people.

In the printed page the only real things are the paper and the ink; the white spaces play the same part in aiding the eye to take in the meaning of the print as do the black letters.

It takes a lot of people years to turn a negative into a positive. It takes me, like, an album.

You cannot have politics without building mass-movements.

Writers can write to affirm and to celebrate, or they can write to debunk and destroy; the choice is ours.