I have the philosophy of yes. If anybody asks me to do a job, I say, 'Yes.' I've said yes to everything.

I've never planned my career, really. It just comes along, and I do whatever comes next!

Variety has always been in my mind: to do something totally different. I've had a parallel career since the beginning. On one track, the TV and film, the other, theatre, but they never crossed.

Theatre is the principal job of an actor. An actor's job is to tell a story to someone in a room. TV and film can be great and I really love doing it, but it is a different way of telling a story.

Comedy as dissent or any art form as dissent is going to be our last safety valve.

Anders Thomas Jensen and I had talked about making a movie which addressed the cancer issue, and we didn't want to make it heavy-handed. We wanted to do something which had a lot of hope in it. And then for some reason we came up with a romantic comedy.

I've been joking that 'On the Road' is the prequel to 'The Road.' I don't know if that's a very good joke.

When I hit my 20s, I struggled to make it. I got married at 19, and my daughter, Je'Niece, was born a year later. I worked blue collar jobs during the day and comedy clubs at night, and I was earning about $25 a year doing stand-up.