"When I was eight, I would look at the cover of the 'Ghost Rider' comic book in my little home in Long Beach, California, and I couldn't get my head around how something that scary could also be good. To me it was my first philosophical awakening - 'How is this possible, this duality?'"

"I think what makes people fascinating is conflict, it's drama, it's the human condition. Nobody wants to watch perfection."

"I do like to move and get physical in my movies."

"I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green."

"If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide."

"The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion."

"The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don't know if I'll ever be as good a dad as my dad."

"Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue."