Actor

I walked on eggshells a lot. I have a bad self-esteem problem, and my father probably facilitated it. He once looked at me very seriously when I was about 15 and had whipped cream smeared all over myself. He said, 'You'd do anything for a laugh, wouldn't you?'

I walked on eggshells a lot. I have a bad self-esteem problem, and my father probably facilitated it. He once looked at me very seriously when I was about 15 and had whipped cream smeared all over myself. He said, 'You'd do anything for a laugh, wouldn't you?'

People are real quick to jump at the easiest way to define you.

I frowned just like Winston Churchill on his worst day, and I reminded my father of a judge who had presided over a case... I've been Judge ever since I was two weeks old.

A lot of things haven't changed - clothes and stuff have - but kids keep working after-school jobs and keep getting into terrible trouble in relationships. That's not going to stop.

Eddie Murphy is a great entertainer.

I'm really glad I had the chance to live in Jensen Beach and Stuart before everything exploded. I'm always going to be fond of that area. For me, it was a sleepy little fishing town, and it kind of represents what Florida was before the development explosion.

When you read a play, the words speak to you. When you read a script, there's no way you can tell if that's the way that movie will turn out.

I don't know one actor that became an actor for healthy reasons.

I like very straight comedy.

My first sex scene - and it was with myself.

I'm not really crazy about broad comedy. I like very possible, real situations that you might have found yourself in.

You have to tell a good story first. If it's a good story, people will be interested. It doesn't matter about the content.

I was pulling in $80 a week after taxes working in a frozen yogurt store.

'Harvey' continues to be both a charming and hilarious play.

In my movies, I portray this 'Everyman' persona, someone everybody can empathize with. People can identify with a guy like me.

The day before 'Beverly Hills Cop' opened, I was at a branch of my bank, and the teller asked me for two pieces of identification. Four days after it opened, I was being waved to on the freeway.

I don't think anybody at the major studios is rushing to offer me a romantic lead.

I like movies that project a dilemma of modern men and women who are overwhelmed by the system.

My first car was a '63 Chevy station wagon that I called Ramona, because that's the sound it made. 'Farm Use' was painted on the back. It was right off the set of 'Hee Haw.'