In my youth there were words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can't say 'girl.'

When you're in a public profession like I was, and you stop doing it like I did, people think you're either crazy or dead.

I'm not interested in promoting myself or revealing to total strangers anything about me. That's not my job.

The Army has carried the American ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.

The characters I play are tough, but I love laughing and humor.

I really like dramas that have a tone of comedy in them or the opposite, and those are done by people like Alexander Payne and Jason Reitman but also Spike Jonze and David O. Russell and Paul Thomas Anderson, the Coen Brothers.

I think there should be comedy in everything; it doesn't matter what you're doing.

I read one too many books about Joy Division by people who weren't there, and they always seem to dwell on the dark, the intense, the miserable image of Joy Division.