I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that.
Debate is so much better than denial.
I'm more selective now I've got a family. I don't want to work all the time. My daughter's 12; I don't want to miss out on her life. Soon she'll be a teenager; she won't want me around.
I'll tell you how it happened. The phone rang. Paul, my agent, goes, 'Would you like to play Meryl Streep's?' I said, 'Yeeees! I'll do it, whatever it is. ' He said, 'It's Mamma Mia!. ' I said, 'Oh no, which character? The fat friend?
My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric - they can behave the way they want.
I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive.
I never had any acting heroes. I never really went to the theatre.
I've heard that the two plants that make Ayahuasca (Banisteriopsis caapi and Psychotria viridis) in the Amazon, are increasingly difficult to find in the wild.
I am gonna try again and again, because the moment I give up, is the moment I fail.
Johnny Hart became much less funny after he found sobriety, and religion, around the same time.
I think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats.