I'm much more low-key than the characters I've played.

I believe that laughter is the best emotional Band-Aid in the world. It's like nature's Neosporin.

Why do you have to break up with her? Be a man. Just stop calling.

As an actor, the biggest compliment you can get, in my book is for someone to believe that you're the character.

My favorite character on Friends was Joey, because we're both actors. I always thought that was so cool.

I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society.

The phone's not ringing off the hook, but that's ok by me. I feel very fortunate, work to me has become a kind of hobby.

You can't be funny if you don't have good material.

A true gentleman doesn’t prefer blondes. A true gentleman doesn’t have any preferences whatsoever.

Work to me has become kind of a hobby. I was a part of something that gave me financial independence and the rent is paid. Now it's just about projects that turn me on.

I have funny bones. If there's ever any kind of tension, I'll always be the one to try and be funny to loosen things up.

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.

Make sure that your heartfelt thanksgiving is more consistent than your nagging needs and your passionate apology fervent than your unhealthy justifications. Be clean and hopeful.

What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time.

[T]he appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de miseres.

I still want my right to defend myself. A railroad operation, and you know it, from Nixon on down. they got you running around violating my constitutional rights.

The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.

I just want things to work properly.

I gave up shame a long time ago.

I love the idea of rectitude.

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.