Hurried and worried until we're buried and there's no curtain call Lifes a very funny proposition after all.

I'm an unorthodox type of guy a funny guy - at least I think I'm funny. And one of the things I like to do is come up with nicknames for myself.

This is going to sound really funny. I have a poster of Zac Efron on my wall! I think every girl has a poster of him in their room so why not join the club!

I'm very silly as a person but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford whom I was in 'Morning Glory' with has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.

You know I've always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end.

I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic... That to me was funny.

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

It's funny that there was so much disturbance about having a Catholic in the White House with Kennedy and when we finally get a religion in the White House that's causing a lot of conflicts and concerns and disturbances for a lot of people it's in the Bush Administration.

It's funny with fiction - once you cut something it hasn't happened anymore.

Something about New York man: You can do more comedy there probably than you can anywhere in the world. If you're interested in being funny New York is the place to go.

It was always a fantasy of mine growing up - my favorite program was always 'Little House on the Prairie' - so I always wanted to wear those looks. When I was a child I wouldn't let my mom put me in anything but calico dresses and now... whaddaya know every day I'm in a calico dress basically so it's kind of funny.

I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months how bad could that be?

I grew up in a funny way.

I don't think 'Gee I'd like to dress this person.' There was a picture in Us magazine. It was a jersey dress and Courtney Love was wearing it. I have this thing about Courtney Love this funny worship.

I always find it kind of embarrassing kind of funny and kind of exciting. In New York I'm recognized a lot although nobody says anything. You know they stare at you just a second too long. But in Paris it's not as commonplace to be recognized.

People ask 'do you make a conscious effort not to swear?' - if you're doing silly stuff you're not tempted to put swearing in. All the comics from my childhood who were funny without swearing were the people that influenced me. What I do is quite traditional anyway.

As a writer or as a filmmaker you have to present yourself and part of what yourself is is what you're interested in or what you think is funny or what you think is sad or what you think is horrible.

My father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration.

I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said.

It's funny when you're a kid how you can acclimate to almost anything.

If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude they'd be off TV. They're not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we'd know who she was?

Maybe I'm delusional but I'm usually funny. It's not 100% but I have a pretty good batting average.

It's funny as you live through something you're not aware of it.

Being funny it turns out is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you you are fine.