I did 15 shows a week when I lived in New York. I did five shows on a Friday and seven shows on a Saturday. It was everything I did and it was my sole source of income.
You know, before I would think, my cab driver hates me. Now I think my limo driver hates me.
If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now.
If you are someone, you know, with fame, whatever amount, it's good to be married to someone who's not impressed with that at all.
As an actor, that's nerve-wracking enough [drunk and doing coke] because you have to do it at the right level.
It was very nerve-wracking for me. I had to be drunk and have a threesome. I'm not that guy. Bobby Cannavale is that guy. But it was Vegas and things got crazy, and it happened. We go to Vegas to try to sign Elvis Presley and things get crazy. My character [in Vinyl] is stoned.
Mick Jagger also a music connoisseur and knows everything about that era. So, you knew the music side was going to be top-notch. It's HBO. On Men of Certain Age, if we wanted a song, it would break the bank. But, Vinyl can go all-out.
It's starting to feel good, although I don't like feeling too good - that's not where my comedy comes from.
I love hitting into the rough because it gets me close to the people.
Mike Royce and I have always had success writing what we know. What we know now is that we're middle-aged, neurotic and fat.
You have to remember: the wife been home all day cleaning asses and feeding faces. Sometimes the opposite.
My kids are growing up and it's hard to accept they are their own person and they're independent.
I am like Hugh Hefner minus anything good about his life.
For a sitcom sex scene, you get in bed and that's the end of the scene. It quick and it was fast, but it was foreign territory for me. Not for Bobby. Bobby Cannavale has been down that road before. With my character, I think it will be a one-and-out. I don't think you'll see my character [in Vinyl] naked again, so relax everybody.
I was at home waiting for projects. I was on Parenthood and there was one season left, and I was thinking, "What's next?" I'm at this age where I'm trying to write my own script, and they sent this over and I decided to put myself on tape.
The fact that they let me in a movie with Gene Hackman has left me with no faith in show buisness.
I'm always giving myself the Alzheimer's test. My shrink told me to do this. It takes one minute. You name every word that comes to mind that begins with the letter F.
I love standup and I haven't given it up.
I lived at home till I was 29.
I like doing film, you know, single-camera.
I just don't want to play the same guy again over and over.
I don't want to be a spokesman for family values, but that's the way my standup is perceived.
I don't think men talk as much as women, but when we have something on our minds we'll get it out.
I do what I do because I love it.
I do still get intimidated by certain things.
