I was the class clown, but I was a reluctant class clown because I was always and still am somewhat embarrassed by performing. I have terrible stage fright, and I don't like being in front of people.

People think that all cameramen do is point the camera at things, but it's a heck of a lot more complicated than that.

That's what keeps me up at three in the morning: Who's looking at reviews of Cabin Boy right now?

I don't get offered many dramatic roles. As soon as my face pops up in a movie, everyone knows I'm the funny guy.

Somehow, by just continually pestering the general public by appearing on television, they accepted me and wanted more.

But I don't think I was ever destined to be a big star.

I think the whole idea of me was that I wasn't going to be but that I wanted to be, desperately.

I'm not a competitive person.

You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too.

Modernity is the most transient of qualities.

There's immense fun to be had as long as you can sort of sneak it past DC. I have been told on occasion that I need to have more respect for these characters.

Sometimes we become so sophisticated we have to read the New York Times in order to figure out whether it's a hot or a rainy day.

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

Those who cannot renounce attachment to the results of their work are far from the path.

oil paints...the look of licked lips.

The true test of courage is to be afraid and to go ahead and do it anyway - to be scared, is to have your knees knocking, but to walk on in there anyway.

After they underestimated you, you Iraqis, now they've come on land; this attempt is our chance to incur losses on them

I like doing food as a focal point on my table. It is not like going out and buying flowers or candles, which are expensive.