Quotes
I studied privately with artists so I could learn what I was doing as a painter.
I see people especially in a place like New York or Los Angeles who are so busy trying to be something so that people will give them a job that when they get the job they've confused, even to themselves, who they are.
I prefer just being me and waiting an hour for a table if need be.
I make no bones about being a dedicated amateur at some of them and being a serious professional at some of them but I'm always pursuing improvement and getting into things up to my elbows.
I like to do things, I'm interested in a lot of things.
I just kind of do my work and go home.
I have every bit of confidence that my children will remember me with great love and charity, and my wife and friends.
I guess there are many factors, growing up in a solid family with great parents who screwed my head on straight.
I enjoy doing stand up because of the utter freedom of being on stage.
I don't care if people remember me.
How it shaped my perception is this: I have become so indelibly identified as a character in pop culture that it has forced me to go deeply within myself to get a very very rock solid sense, to myself, of who I am.
But I didn't actually end up hanging upside down with the snake.
Being known as something else than what I am by everyone I come across in life has forced me to strengthen the sense that I have of myself.
Basically, what it's about is getting a job and performing in that job the best that I can.
As soon as I approached it like a play, I got better quickly.
As I told you, fortunately, I just don't watch a lot of TV.
Andersonville. The Civil War movie about the only concentration camp in America history. My great-great grandfather was actually a prisoner in the camp, where I got to play a Union prisoner.
And ultimately I go, I think I would live in a box and paint.
And people come up to me all the time and tell me about how they went to a drive in with their dad that night and how the moment is frozen in time.
And by the same token, I appreciate math, because I can't do math. If I have to read a map or figure out the tip on a restaurant bill, I might start to tear up a little bit.