Matthew Broderick

I spent a lot of time growing up in Ireland in Donegal.

I liked 'Brighton Beach Memoirs,' which I did with Neil Simon. I kind of was playing him, as Eugene Morris Jerome, and I played that a few times at the very beginning of my career.

I used to wonder what it would be like to see my name on a billboard. I couldn't even imagine something like that. Then you see it, and, well, it just makes billboards not as special as they used to be. It's weird.

We celebrated Christmas. Not religiously, but we did the tree and the lights. Hannukah always seemed not quite as thrilling - Sorry to my Jewish brothers and sisters! But when you're a kid, Santa and all that, you know, that really trumps the menorah. So we did Christmas.

I like actors who are sort of different and eccentric - not what you expect.

Most of the people in Donegal knew me long before I was an actor. But even since then, they don't talk that much about it, which is very nice.

I've liked Pete Gurney's writing always.

I saw Al Pacino on the street once. That made me very nervous.

I think I'm a somewhat nervous bee who just wants to conform. Which, I guess, is common in bees.

Television makes you very famous. It's very strange.

Election' - I just loved the script, and I loved having the part.

I walk into rooms and I don't know why I'm there. I'm like, 'Why am I standing in front of the toilet now?'