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1. I just don’t want to play the same guy again over and over.
2. I think that as actors age, the work becomes more organic to them.
3. I’ve always wondered, what am I going to do that’s important with these stupid jokes that I tell.
4. If I’m really considering doing film from now on then that is the smart thing to do, or you can go either way. You can just do the same character over and over again and make a different comedy like over and over again.
5. You don’t want to shock them and do something totally opposite, but you also want to play a different character.
6. I want to do well and I want to fit in.
7. My joke used to be about my father and Peter Boyle: that anything you see Peter Boyle do on TV, my father has done in real life without pants on.
8. As successful as it may appear I am, I don’t really feel that. It’s like, you know you’ve achieved some level of success, and you know what you’ve done, and yet you still feel you have more to do and more to prove.
9. I don’t want to be a spokesman for family values, but that’s the way my standup is perceived.
10. I do still get intimidated by certain things.
11. If golf wasn’t enjoyable and there wasn’t a lot of humor and enjoyment, even though the game is so frustrating, you would wonder why you put yourself through it.
12. In stand-up, there’s that idea that comedy comes from a dark place, but it’s not a rule.
13. It’s my insecurity that makes me want to be a comic, that makes me need the audience.
14. Every backstory involves my father. I remember hearing Gary Oldman talking about backstories and saying, ‘I got to stop using my father…’ And I feel the same way. I don’t know. What I come up with always involves some element of this son trying to prove himself to his father.
15. The first time I played golf was in Flushing Meadows, Queens, when I was about 16 or 17. They had an 18-hole pitch-and-putt. My buddies and I would hop the fence and sneak on and play.
16. I’m aging, and the world is seeing it.
17. Anna would be just as happy with me if I were a plumber. As a matter of fact, when she married me, I was working at a bank and living at home. I didn’t move out until I was 29!
18. In school, I wasn’t a very good student — I was very irresponsible and never did the studying but always liked to get the laugh.
19. Everyone should have kids. They are the greatest joy in the world. But they are also terrorists. You’ll realize this as soon as they’re born, and they start using sleep deprivation to break you.
20. I lived at home till I was 29.