“I'm not really a career person; I'm a gardener, basically.”

“I'm playing a cat burglar. I've made it. This is the high point of my career. I'm really chuffed.”

“I'm not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.”

“I don't really like you, but I'm so good at acting as if I do that it's basically the same thing.”

“I'm interrupting my career. It's not like I want my new career in politics. But I'm willing to interrupt it the same way that somebody interrupted their career and joined World War II and went off to fight the Nazis. I don't think that I'm that heroic, and I don't think I'm risking as much as a soldier. But it's the same principle.”

“The only really sane person in there is Igor, and possibly the turnip. And I'm not sure about the turnip.”

“In real life, I'm a really smiley person. I smile when I talk and I laugh.”

“I'm this superphilosophical kind of person. Stuck in a prison of abstract ideas and overpowering emotions, I have this personality that makes it really hard to survive.”

“Basically I'm a very serious person, but I think the form it takes with me is comedy. I see the amusing side of all potentially pompous situations.”

“I am not a career politician. I'm not a Democrat. I'm not a Republican. I'm a working man with commonsense ideas and goals. I describe myself politically as fiscally conservative and socially moderate-to-liberal.”