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Quotes
 I
don't know who I touch and who I don't. I work hard trying to make
people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing
up. I don't have any secrets. I don't know the reasons I've been so well
received.
I
never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't
do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect.
I
think he's just a nice man. I like the way he shoots movies and I like
the look of them. I'm pretty insane. I have a lot of different thoughts
and he can tolerate me pretty good and stay in a nice mood. And he keeps
the set fun. I just like him as a person.
I
sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to
sing "Maria" from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I
hang up.
I'm
not comfortable being around too many people. I don't like being out in
public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing
celebrity stuff. So most of the characters I play are people who don't
always feel comfortable beyond their small circle of friends.
That
was nice, singing "I Feel Pretty". Nicholson could hold a tune
and I was happy to jam with him!
I’m
not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like
what I get to do, and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those
movies but this is incredible. Jim Brooks, when I met him a long time
ago - a quick ‘hello’ kind of thing - I loved his movies, every one
he’s done. So the fact that he wrote a movie and he wanted me to be in
it, I was extremely excited. But, in my head I didn’t say, “Oh,
I’m gonna run away from my other stuff.” I was just like, “Yeah,
I’d like to do that, too.”
My
comedy is different every time I do it. I don't know what the hell I'm
doing.
Mostly
relieved. When I started it and Jack said he would do it with us, the
thing I wanted to do least was to let him down. We didn't let him down.
He likes the picture and I'm psyched!
We
just bought this house. It's too big. It's like 400,000 square feet, or
something. We got an indoor lake and ski slope in the house! It's just
too big.
When
I got into this, I never thought about reviews. I never thought about
what people would say about me, I was just a young guy who was excited
to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I
got to do.
Study
dads more. I watch what they go through. I admire my father more than I
ever did at my age, and my brother and my sister. The thing that I
always think about with my parents, and what I think John Clasky is
similar to, is when my parents would get a phone call, their friends
would say, “Hey, we’re going away to Bermuda this weekend. You want
to come?” And my parents would say, “Oh, really?” And the other
people would say, “We’re not bringing the kids though.” My parents
would go, “No kids? Oh no, we can’t go then.” That was my
father’s sacrifice and my mother’s. They didn’t care about
anything but the kids, and I feel like that’s a big part of John
Clasky.
You
know, when you don't go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep
with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly 'in the know,' start
whispering that you're gay. If I were gay, I wouldn't be ashamed to
admit it, but I'm not.
I
laughed my ass off at every take where Nicholson takes his plate of eggs
and throws it against the wall! I enjoyed hearing him scream: "I
said over easy!" I don't know why that made me laugh but I couldn't
hold in my laughter.
I
wasn't worried about that because Nicholson himself is a movie maker,
and in order to make this movie right, it had to be give and take - and
that was the way we wrote the script. I know that when I watch the
movie, I stay focused on him. I'm fascinated every time he walks in the
room.
Now
I realize how ugly I am. - after getting laser eye surgery.
I
don't know. I didn't have many expectations. I loved his movies and I
knew in his movies he could be lots of different personalities and
express lots of different emotions, so I wasn't sure what it was going
to be like hanging out with him. What I got from him, though, was a real
funny guy, an incredibly smart guy, very sweet to his family, just very
personable. I enjoyed hanging out with him.
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