"One of those things that I like about TV is that if you get a group of people you like, you can work with these people for months at a time, and you can discover their strengths and weaknesses, and you can use those in the direction where you take the characters."

"The thing with movies is, because you have so little time, I always feel like there are more things we could've done with the character. If we'd done a sequel to 'The Thomas Crown Affair,' what would that have been like? But for the most part, you try not to think of that, because it's just going to break your heart."

"If you do good work, it tends to stick around. People still come up to me and say, 'The Ref' is my favorite Christmas movie.'"

"What firefighters and people in our military and cops do is separate from what the rest of us do; basically these people say, 'I'm going to protect all these strangers.'"

"Every actor thinks he can do comedy, and it's not true."

"I've been nominated for Emmys and Golden Globes, but I've never won one and I probably never will."

"I'd love to do another television series. I really love the writing process, and as an actor I really like how much you get to examine in television."

"When I was doing standup, I always wanted to get out of the standup world and take it back into the theatrical world, like with 'No Cure For Cancer.'"

"Kids are incredibly expensive. But it pays off later when they are better educated, bigger, and better-looking than you. And find you incessantly boring and uncool."

"Willem Dafoe and I are actually the same person."

"Most of the women placed in the fire department here in New York never passed the physical test. And a fat guy or a short guy, or anybody not passing the test in a life-or-death job, leads to friction."

"I don't want to see a 'Sopranos' movie. This is just me. I like to think the end is where it was on TV as opposed to becoming a movie."

"I have a lot of conservative views on a lot of things."

"I love America."

"I know gay - gay people who aren't married who are better parents than some, you know, straight people I know who are married."

"I think all priests should be married."

"I went to see the 'Spider-Man' movies because my wife is a fan, and so are my kids."

"I didn't raise my kids with the fear of God."

"I'm a lapsed Catholic in the best sense of the word."

"Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used."

"I spent a long time working in the movies to figure out that kind of acting and also how to write and produce for the screen."

"I really, really like 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of the few things that makes me laugh."

"I'm a huge Kevin Youkilis fan."

"If you're over 52 years old and you're on Facebook, do us all a favor and log off now."

"In addition to my cousin, there were 30 or 40 guys I grew up with who became firefighters as well. So, I've been around firefighters all my life."

"There's no male Oprah."

"I remember 9/11; we had 'Comics Come Home' about a month after those events. That night, even the comedians were concerned. Would the audience be ready to laugh? It was a release for everyone."

"I really want to do a western film. It's one of my favorite movie genres of all time."

"If you see me doing a new stand-up special, it probably means I've been out of work for a while."

"I don't really have a lot of fun playing just straight good guys. It's not my thing. It's like Tom Hanks territory."

"Some people expect me to be funny all the time, and I'm not necessarily funny all the time."

"The best thing about series TV is that everyone you work with is hand-picked, as compared to working on a film."

"I think we're going to carry the 'Ice Age's up to 'Ice Age 15,' which means basically they'll be in the present decade."

"Bill Murray doesn't do anything. He barely shows up at the movies he says he's going to do."

"You can't teach somebody how to be funny. You're either funny, or you ain't."

"With any actor, if you know your character well enough, you'll know pretty much what he would say under any circumstance, or whatever situation might rear its head."

"Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it."

"I actually like talking."

"You can have good writing, but a great actor will make it feel and sound like great writing. You can have great writing, and mediocre actors will make it feel mediocre. Without the actors, you have nothing."

"Usually when you watch a film, you're just sort of biting your nails about things you could have done differently."

"I don't believe in the power of words."

"I've always had a thing for Catwoman. Michelle Pfeiffer or Halle Berry in tight leather pants, with the boots - I'm pretty good with either one."

"When I was a teenager, you couldn't get straight pants. Then in '76, when punk started to hit, it was a revelation that you could find straight pants again."

"I do have to say that I think that President Obama is the greatest President in the history of all of our Presidents, and that he can do no wrong in my book. So how's that for prejudice on the Democratic side?"

"If a character dies, you get to do a big, juicy death scene. But the flip side is you're out of the sequel, which is where the real money is."

"I love Santa Monica and Venice because I like the beach. I have a lot of friends in that area."

"My brother and I tortured my mother growing up."

"I'm a pretty boring guy. Compared to Ashton Kutcher, I live a really boring existence."

"Wolfhounds helped kill off the wolves in Ireland."

"What's politically correct a lot of times is not funny."