"I wish I was somebody else except me."

"I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror."

"I�m a stranger in a strange land."

"We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known."

"No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it."

"Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes."

"Never let 'em see you ache. That's what Mr. Mayer used to say. Or was it ass? Never let 'em see your ass."

"As we all know, there is no underwear in space."

"And not that it matters, but my mother is not a lesbian! She's just a really, really bad heterosexual."

"We live in America,' he said. 'Everyone who speaks English understands you. How they interpret you is something else."

"My mother was very funny. My dad had a great sense of humor. My grandmother, too."

"Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing."

"You screw me, I screw you back. I'm a lady like that."

"I'm not ashamed of being a bubbly, funny person. I think that's as valid as being the dark, brooding, tortured Oscar-nominated one."

"You have to really enjoy (being sexy). Not fake anything. Sexy is being in the moment, whether that means being coy or coming on hard. Faking is always lame and it never comes across the way you want it to."

"I think humor is the best gift, and if you can't laugh at yourself, who can you laugh at?"

"It ain’t no secret No secret my friend You can get killed just for living In your American skin"

"Humour has always been a self-defence mechanism for me."

"I am 30, but there are things about me that are still 15."

"If I go to a restaurant, other people stare. The meal is ruined."

"I am really not interested in the cinema."

"Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain"

"You can write when you're dyslexic, you just can't read it. But I started writing short stories as a child and I found the short story format a real nice one. I love short stories and I love short documentaries or short films of any kind."

"They were on the set of Bad Santa but I tried to keep the headphones away from them. My kids have seen Sling Blade, they've seen Armageddon, Bandits and Friday Night Lights. They have not seen Monster's Ball, nor will they ever, even when they're sixty [laughter]. I will leave it in my will that they can never see it."