 Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile. |
| I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don't know if it's possible forever and ever. |
| I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.' |
| I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be performing. |
| Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting. |
| Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them. |
| I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin' wealthy. |
| My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry. |
| That's the trouble with being me. At this point, nobody gives a damn what my problem is. I could literally have a tumor on the side of my head and they'd be like, 'Yeah, big deal. I'd eat a tumor every morning for the kinda money you're pulling down.' |
| I'm the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it's still about the work. |
| My life is not unlike Truman's. I can't go anywhere. |
| My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh. |
| Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don't limit myself. |
| I just want to be myself. |
| I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course. |
| Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity. |
| Originality is really important. |
| Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches. |
| Some nights it was a melee, literally, where I'd be standing trying to defend myself for what I was doing. People would be screaming at me to do my old act, and getting actually violent and angry at me. |
| When the first big paycheque with 'Dumb And Dumber' hit, I went: 'Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?' But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe. |
