The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.

A fool and his money are soon elected.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.

Sometimes people deserve a high five, in the face, with a chair.

I was made fun of for being fat from fourth or fifth grade to eighth grade. That was pretty rough.

There's something innately funny and warm about being Jewish. I think it's something to be embraced and respected.

Doing funny roles is something I enjoy as I am like that in my personal life.

I wanted to be funny. And I'm always acknowledged for my pranks and jokes nowadays.

It's funny how when you're up so late at night for so long your mind can get into these creative places, the kind of creative places that come to you when you're halfway between asleep and awake.

You gotta keep the funny intact.

I was actually looking at comedies and wondered, 'Why is every comedy for a women a romantic one? I was so done! Then I said, 'Could I look at every script Jim Carrey rejected?' It didn't center around me getting a man.

I'm just having fun. And giving a sort of second shot at childhood and life - and I need to be present to do it.

It's funny about paths and rivers," he mused. "You see them go by, and suddenly you feel upset and want to be somewhere else--wherever the path or the river is going, perhaps.

It's so funny because no matter what you say, fans only read and hear what they want.

So many guys are so conservative with their hair, and I always joke with all my buddies when they mess with me, and I'll say, 'That's right, keep the same haircut for ten years.' How fun is that?

Isn't it funny how something that will later be a blessing can be a curse if you get it too soon.

I always find it actually funny that the analysis is that the characters I play in comedies are the manchild, the adolescent, characters that refuse to grow up. And yet, if you look back in the history of comedy all the way back to the Marx brothers, that's a big part of comedy.

I always just forced myself to do crazy things in public. In college I would push an overhead projector across campus with my pants just low enough to show my butt. Then my friend would incite the crowd to be like, 'Look at that idiot!' That's how I got over being shy.

I'd love to become like Bill Murray, who was so funny on 'Saturday Night Live' and has gone on to do some of the landmark comedies people like. And then to add this whole other phase to his career with 'Lost in Translation' and 'Rushmore.' I always felt to be able to have something similar to that would be great.

My kind of wanting to be funny didn't come from need, necessarily. The closest I can analyze it is that it was an easy way to make friends, I found out. It was just a great kind of social tool.