It's so interesting to watch Ben Stiller work because he just knows what's funny.

What happened happened. What's gonna happen, is gonna happen.

Eddie Murphy is just so off-the-cuff and can make anything funny. You hope that someday you'll acquire that skill, but maybe you're born with that.

You can have a kid and just be off at work all the time, and it's all mom. But, I spent a lot of time with him, so now, every time I see him, he's like, "Dada!"

I took a year and a half off, when my kid was born, because I didn't want to be one of those dads where the kid doesn't know who his dad is.

I grew up reading the newspapers, mostly the sports section. I was a wrestler and would check to see if I was ranked.

A good comic explores the imagination, but it's always got to have those notes of truth running through it.

I've always noticed that girls cry way easier than guys do.

I'm clearly not a writer, but I'm always a fan of them.

I'm just an actor. If it's drama, I add as much humour as the part will stand. And if it's a comedy, add as much drama as you can, so it balances out; you don't wanna be too serious.

I have really good managers and agents who are very selective in what they send me.

The sight of her made him understand why he'd lost his faith in God.

And now, my poor old woman, why are you crying so bitterly? It is autumn. The leaves are falling from the trees like burning tears- the wind howls. Why must you mimic them?

Cleverness is serviceable for everything sufficient for nothing.

People who enjoy waving flags don't deserve to have one.

there was no crime like the crime of stagnation - unproductiveness. With a creative trinity, mind, body and spirit, one must yield something back to the generous earth.

Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.

I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.

They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself.

We didn't know if ordinary lunatics or just unstable people on the ground could feel incited to harm me.

And I quoted from Nietzsche: That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.