"But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way."

"For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes."

"The reason I turn down 99% of a hundred, I mean a thousand, scripts is because romantic comedies are often very romantic but seldom very funny."

"The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor."

"I'm always trying to perfect the romantic comedy, though."

"No one ever thought Clint Eastwood was funny, but he was."

"For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not the nuns - was to be the funny guy."

"If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny."