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

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

"I think all priests should be married."

"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 love America."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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.'"

"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."

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

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

"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.'"

"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.'"

"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."

"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."

"I did 12 years with nuns, you know. So I came out of it going, like, 'I think Jesus is all right.' The rest of it I think stinks to the high heavens."

"Everyone's got skeletons in their closet, and I've got a million in mine, believe me. I tested the envelope; I pushed it. Whenever somebody in authority told me not to do something, I did it just to find out wh"I did 12 years with nuns, you know. So I came out of it going, like, 'I think Jesus is all right.' The rest of it I think stinks to the high heavens."y they said not to do it."

"The best comedy audiences in the country and this is tried and true, I'm not just saying it, in my opinion are Boston, Atlanta, and Chicago."

"The biggest battle for a lot of people who come out of the theater, which is where I was trained, is that they can never forget that a camera is pointed at them."

"The only difference between kids and jungle animals is pants. Kids wear them. Jungle animals don't."

"No woman can be completely happy at any one moment in time. They're always anticipating the next thing to argue or complain about."