Honestly, To Tell You The Truth, Being

There Is Something About The Water - That Solitary Kind Of Peaceful Feeling. You're On Earth But Not Quite.

I Considered A Lot Of Different Jobs As A Kid. I Thought About Becoming A Priest Or A Lawyer. My Father Had A Big Linen-supply Business And I Considered Working For Him. What Dawned On Me Was: 'if I'm An Actor, I Get To Do The Fun Parts Of Every Job!' Without Having To Go To Four Years Of Law School.

I Don't Think I Could Ever Stop Doing Serious Movies And Just Do Comedies, Or Vice Versa, But There Is Something Cool About Going To Work Everyday And You're Just Trying To Make Your Friends Laugh. That's Nice Work If You Can Get It, You Know What I Mean? It's Different Than Going To Work And Knowing That I've Gotta Slap Someone In The Face Today, And Then I've Gotta Cry, And Someone's Gonna Die, I've Gotta Get Myself To That Place.

Kind Of The Exhausting Thing About Doing Pure Comedy, Or Something That's Broader, Is You're Kind Of A Slave To The Laugh. If It's Not Funny, Then There's Not Much Point In Doing It. The Kind Of über-objective Is To Make People Laugh. You Always Have To Have That In The Back Of Your Mind, "eh, I've Got To Figure Out A Way To Make This Funny."

Here's The Thing, With Comedy - And I Learned This From Will Ferrell - You Can't Be Ashamed. If You're Doing Comedy, You Have To Fully Commit To The Joke. Shame Is Not Part Of It. If You Act Shy Or Uncomfortable About Your Body, That Makes The Audience Shy And Uncomfortable. And In A Comedy You Just Want Them To Loosen Up And Laugh.