I don't make crappy movies. I spend two or three years making a film. I don't take myself seriously, but I take my movies very seriously.
It's funny, a lot of people think I take myself seriously because I come off so serious sometimes. But it's not that I take myself seriously, I take what I do seriously.
I just don't think I'm special because I'm an actor and I never would. Of course I take what I do seriously because I love doing it, and I love being in films and making films, but I don't take myself seriously.
So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor.
My personal problem is that I take the business of film-making so seriously that I find it very difficult to relax.
I take my dog Tinkerbell seriously. I take my job seriously. But I don't take myself all that seriously.
To me the early childhood story is an ecumenical one. You take poverty seriously. You take seriously maternal depression. You take seriously children under stress and you take seriously the effects of extended hours participation in poor quality care. Those are the facts I begin with.
It's okay to take yourself too seriously if you're a serious actor and you've got the scrubs on. And then with me, it's kind of like, well, I'm a comedian, I'm making fun of everybody and everything. And I'm making fun of myself. I'm having fun making fun of and for other people.
I have learnt not to ignore instincts. While making a film, when your gut feels that you are going wrong, please take that seriously.
My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
I take the work seriously. Which is why I always swing for the fences whenever I voice a character. But that said, I don't take myself all that seriously.
I just don't take myself as seriously anymore. But as a result of that, I am taking myself more seriously. My ego has gone on holiday, and it can't get a flight back home.
I don't even take myself seriously, so how could I possibly take Hollywood seriously?
I take my work seriously but I can't take myself too seriously. I'm in such a crazy privileged position.
Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously.
I think people take me as seriously as I want them to. They take me as seriously as I take myself - let's put it that way.