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I actually was class clown, but I do not know how that happened because I have never been considered an outwardly funny person.

Comedy is surprises, so if you are intending to make somebody laugh and they do not laugh, that is funny.

Scream was great for what it was. For a horror film, it was intelligent, it was funny, it took a laugh at itself.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be serious, like Daniel Day-Lewis. No one really dreams of being a comic actor, do they? Now I realise how stupid that is - and it is because comic acting is not taken seriously enough. It is a discipline. You know instantly - either you are funny and getting the laughs, or you are not.

I think there is something in the fact that it is hard to be good looking and funny. You have to have an oddball quality people have to sympathise with you to find you funny.

One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.

For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not the nuns - was to be the funny guy.

It is sort of an action flick. You can not be that funny trying to steal diamonds.

I do find comedy difficult. I do not know why. Maybe I think about it too much. There is a tremendous amount of pressure to be funny.

I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but... I have a reputation of - people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow.

I do not dismiss the music that I was involved with, I do not think it was a joke, I do not think it was funny or a phase, I do not think it was just something I was doing back then, to me it was who I am. It connects all the way through. I do not distance myself from any of it.

Even as a kid I was never the generator of humor, but I always knew who was funny, who to hang out with.

In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really was funny. I wish I had understood Italian.

I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience what things are funny and not.

Life is funny and it is interesting how we make it as serious as possible.

It is funny, though, speaking of fathers and sons, because me and John Goodman played father and son, like, five or six years ago in the film Death Sentence, and I got back with him again in Inside Llewyn Davis.

It is funny that I got to do On the Road because the thing that had the biggest impact on me growing up was reading books. I was very inspired by the book and this spirit of Dean Moriarty and how envious we all are of somebody who can be that carefree.

It is funny - I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands, and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I am rounder in the face, I like to say, This is my long-term look. Or This is my wife-and-kids look right here.

This is the great thing about Northern Ireland. I walk down the street and people stop me and say things like, I know you. You are that wee golfer, aren't you? I say, Yeah, that is me. They say, Keep it up, wee man. It is very funny and that is why I want to stay here as long as possible.

I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it is often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation.