Well, you know, when people say stuff about you, it's always really flattering. But does it mean anything to me? It's not really real to me; there's no reality to it.

This whole business feels kind of intense, like a bad fit. Round peg, square hole. But whatever, I'll take it.

Am I really cool? You're telling me I'm cool? Well, that's good to hear.

It'd be disingenuous to say I don't like attention - I'm an actor for God's sake - and it's flattering and all, but attention was never my big goal. I just like to work and have a good time.

You are absolutely free to describe me as a turtle or something.

Well, you know, when people say stuff about you, it's always really flattering. But does it mean anything to me? It's not really real to me; there's no reality to it.

'Capricorn One' just seemed like... wow. That was it, y'know? Nothing was ever going to be better than that movie.

Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.

Acting can be a really silly thing. It's like playing dress-up.

As an actor, to have achieved financial stability is amazing. But I always have this weird fear that I'm not going to get any more work; it's about not having enough money.

I always would be happy to make a character even more unlikable, but you know, there's a limit and if you go there, you get into a very different kind of movie, man.

I consider myself an atheist. My wife is Jewish. And I'm fine with my son being raised as a Jew. He's learning Hebrew and is really into it. I will talk to my own son about my atheism when the time is right. But there's a great tradition of Jewish atheism, there are no better atheists in the world than the Jews.

I definitely had a top-notch education.

I definitely have a tendency to only see the blemishes of things, and see lots of things about my acting that I don't like.

I don't consider myself a very interesting person. I have the mentality of a supporting actor.

I don't feel like I've ever done anything - even 'Big Momma's House' - that I didn't really have some desire to do.

I don't mind being stereotyped in some way and playing certain kinds of guys, but if I can find something to occasionally get a break from that, that would be nice. And I feel like I manage to.

I don't mind talking about acting. I don't have anything interesting to say about it, but it's interesting talking about it.

I don't really have any opinion about my performance in 'Big Momma's House.'

I don't think film actors need training, really.

I find that the crazy narcissists, the selfish loons are often the most fun to be around, weirdly.

I get tired of myself pretty fast.

I have the mentality of a supporting actor.

I learned how to fire a sniper rifle, which I'm sure will be useful at some point.

I like playing weird, kind of shady people.

I like to work - I probably work too much.

I mean, I'm not going to play the hero of something.

I never thought I would have any particular career in movies at all.

I played old men back in drama school. It's just now that I'm drawing level with the age of the characters I play, but I'm fine with that, and I've certainly never envied people who became hugely famous when they were young.

I remember when I was at the first showing of 'John Dies at the End' at Sundance, and I was talking to some of the people in the standby crowd who were outside and didn't have tickets. They were just waiting in line to see if they could get in. It was this whole gang of die-hard sci-fi wacko people, and they were just fantastic.

I still want to be the guy who can get on the subway and check out the freak on the subway.

I suppose there must be some way in which I'm compelled to show some side of myself - or of people - that's paranoid and fraught and beleaguered and downtrodden, just as Tom Cruise wants to show that he's terrifyingly upbeat and terrifyingly heroic all the time.

I try to avoid people as much as possible. They might change my life!

I wanted to play Zapruder, as he is a man you really don't know much about: a faceless, anonymous figure.

I was a big 'Planet of The Apes' fan, so I was really excited about being in it. I had a really good time. I liked wearing all that stuff, and I liked playing the part.

I was more used to acting onstage, for a long time. I don't know, maybe I was temperamentally more suited to stage stuff. And there are things about the stage that I miss in a lot of ways.

I was the youngest child and got a lot more freedom than my brother and sister. I used to wander, doing my own thing under the radar, but I didn't get in bad, bad trouble.

I would probably choose supporting roles if I had to make a choice. It's actually a really hard thing to say. It's all on a role-by-role basis, ultimately. I shouldn't be so quick to say that. I feel like you're given greater license to be colorful and eccentric in supporting roles, and that's interesting to me.

I'm clearly not Brad Pitt, and I'm never going to be Brad Pitt.

I'm not a big wine guy. And bars, I never go to bars anymore. It's such a drag, man.

I've got to be the geekiest guy in the world in a lot of ways. I'm like a zeta male.

I've very critical of myself, and film has been an adjustment for me.

If I play a more aggressive, stronger guy, I often go through my day feeling a bit better than when I play somebody who's not.

It is because my dad died suddenly that I became an actor. I thought, I'm going to make money doing this thing I enjoy.

It's funny: most people who recognize me on the subway and stuff - it's much more they think of me as a funny guy. I get much more of people telling me how much I make them laugh, actually. Which is nice.

Lead roles are fun, but I'm especially happy other, more colorful supporting stuff has come along.

Most conspiracies interest me because of the people who are into them, and the lengths they'll go to expose it or the evidence they think they have. All that stuff. There's just something so beautiful to me about people who sincerely believe we never went to the moon. It gives me so much joy.

Now, actors get so familiarized with Eastern Europe. I never imagined I'd get as familiar with Budapest and Prague and places like that in my life.

Somehow whatever I play ends up being sleazy.