Sometimes I make my life a living hell by writing complex stories with complex characters. But I love it.
For some reason and I don't know why, but I don't think that I'm funny in California. So I always want to do my movies east somewhere.
You think school ends when it ends, but it doesn't.
I want to do movies that I'm proud of where my kids, at some point, can see and I can feel comfortable sitting there watching it with them. And just that move people. That make people feel a little bit better about themselves when they leave the theatre.
As American as an apple is and as American as baseball is, they don't go together. You can't be chewing an apple at a baseball game. You've got to let go of the diet that day.
Every time I do a movie where it gets physical, I say never again.
I think I invented the phrase 'Don't overdo it.'
I could never be James Bond.
When you're big you don't need a reason to sweat. You don't, right? My friends cannot grab a hold of this concept. They come up to me all the time like Jeez! What have you been doing? What are ya jumpin rope in the attic?! Well, I peeled an orange.. about an hour ago. Why, what's up?
Just me onstage with a mike having an intimate relationship with the audience. I don't get nervous for that. I just get excited.
I really wasn't a class clown.
I write flawed characters. Ones that do not always make the best decisions and are driven by ambition or lust. They are not black or white, they are in the large space that exists between.
I'm not a gay man, but I will say this: I get it now. I know what all the hype is about.
My favorite movie of all time is 'Rocky.'
I would always love to be an athlete, but it's got to be a tough day when you have to hang up those cleats.
If I do a movie where I have to have a son and it's a chubby kid, my mother is always like, 'You were never like that.' She gets so upset about it.
I never played music, but it's an important thing ... the studying, the inspiration.
I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit.
From there, I tried out for a community theatre play, joined an improv group... it all started opening up.
I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously.
I don't want to be known as this goody-two-shoes who can only do comedies where puppies are licking peanut butter off my face.
Every few months I'll pop into a comedy club or go to Vegas.
Back in '93 I saw my first UFC fight and just became enamored by it then.
