My parents used to throw great New Year`s Eve parties. They invited such an eclectic mix of showbiz people. All those cool people were always hanging out at our apartment.

I`m not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.

Finding a woman to share your life is not an easy thing in the first place, and then to find yourself happy is even more pleasantly surprising.

Show business is great, but when you`re in a movie that made more than $120 million, the perspective changes. I`d never had the experience of being in a movie that so many people found funny. After the enormous success of There`s Something About Mary (1998), I was able to command much more money and I got recognized more. But the reason for all this is only because the movie made money, not because I`m any more talented or better looking.

Having a child changes everything in a most positive way, and I am extremely lucky to have a great wife who is also an incredible mom.

There`s always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you`re a fraud after all!

I love New York. I was sad, depressed and incredibly moved by our fellow countrymen and what they`ve done. I wanted to give people a chance to see something funny, have a distraction.

I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.

Owen is one of the funniest people around. He`s a friend of mine, and we`ve worked together a number of times. There`s no other person like Owen.

I have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to wind up assaulting the postman or gardener.

Maybe forced retirement isn`t necessary after all.

(On his most memorable pre-acting job) For a summer I was a busboy and waiter at a place in New York called Cafe Central, which was a hip, trendy restaurant in 1985. First I bused tables and was really bad at it. I`m clumsy at carrying plates and glasses. You had to have a swiftness and a facility for carrying stacked objects. That wasn`t me. I was interested in who was coming in, because it was an actor hangout. I would want to see who was talking to whom and what they were saying - basically, stuff you shouldn`t do as a person of service. Dudley Moore came into the restaurant and I was really interested in what he was saying. I kept going over to make sure that he and his companion had enough coffee and that their plates were cleared. I think I really annoyed him. I kept changing the ashtrays with that move where you put the clean ashtray over the full ashtray and remove both and put back the clean ashtray. I think I did that one time too many. Then I became a waiter there, and dealing with orders and the kitchen was worse. It prompted me to get acting work.

I just watched Paul Michael Glaser. He was the reason I wanted to do the movie because as a kid I was such a big fan of his. I watched all the episodes and tried to get a feeling for what he was doing.

Every actor is out there trying to get parts, auditioning, going to acting class and creating a network of people who are in the same position you are. I couldn`t sit around and wait to get work, because it wasn`t happening. I would just try to create my own projects with friends who were filmmakers.

I`m always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.

I don`t have a burning desire to be taken seriously as an actor. I don`t have a master plan in that way.

I`ve had a very good career and I`m grateful that the public has had some level of acceptance and appreciation of my work.

My own parents were touchy-feely.

I don`t devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit.

I have not gone to an `N Sync concert personally. But my dad did a part in Lance Bass` new movie. He could not be a nicer young man.

When you come out with a film, hopefully it gets presented to the public in the right way so people aren`t getting something they don`t expect.

Fashion is so over the top.

If you look at my eyes when I`m dancing, you`ll see that glazed look.

Zoolander was more of my own sensibility.

Normally, people tend to shut off their ambitions and competitive thinking because it doesn`t help them much in normal life. But in the movie business you`ve constantly got to prove yourself. So I can be a real asshole on the set sometimes.

We did the movie because we liked the script; everybody wanted to do the movie just to have fun, and that was the most rewarding part of the process.

[on advice he receives from his father, Jerry Stiller] My father is always telling me to take care of myself and get a lot of rest. He`s always saying, "Sleep will fix anything. Go take a nap". I think he`s right. I find when I get frazzled, if I get a good night`s sleep, I feel much better about things.

I don`t think know if anything`s going to translate anywhere. You`re making a movie, you hope it`s going to be funny, you can`t think about how it`s going to go over.

I don`t think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.

Paul is Starsky, and I met him before shooting. He was very kind and encouraged us to go with what we wanted to do. It was very sweet to see them back with the car after 25 years.

The cliches are that it`s the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.

I would like to do more dramas when I find a good role that will allow me to politely upset people`s expectations of me as a comic actor.

Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.

Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public`s desire for him to be funny simply because he`s so good at it.

I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It`s a valid test of your creative abilities.

I think most politicians could take a dodgeball in the face.

I pay a huge chunk of money to my agent and publicity people to shield me from my fan mail. I don`t even want to know how many letters I get. I don`t see fan mail as a good thing. It always makes me think of stalkers.

I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.

The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.

You`re freaked out that you`re going to be having a child, and once you`re looking after your daughter, it`s the most beautiful thing in the world.

Even when I`m not directing, that doesn`t stop Owen from having ideas for what I should be doing.

Whatever talent I had, I`m sure it helped that my parents were in the business and that I grew up around actors, comedians and directors.

Sometimes I wondered whether I hadn`t let my career get confined to one direction, but lately I`ve decided to accept the fact that I have this opportunity to be successful doing comedies.

It was a mixed blessing to have famous parents. It was tough to go to auditions and be bad, since I couldn`t be anonymous.

(1998 quote on auditioning) It`s hard to maintain a sense of dignity in an audition. I have done so many auditions where I`ve put it out there and have been met with that kind of blank stare - "Great! Thanks! OK! Great work! Thanks for coming in!" At the door I`m thinking, `What the hell am I doing with my life?`

I think most actors have incredibly big egos, but they`re also incredibly insecure. That`s a bad combination. I include myself in this group. For whatever psychological reasons, we want and need approval from everybody in the universe, though we also think we`re totally unworthy of it. We need to validate ourselves through our work.

I have not been an easygoing guy. I think it`s called bipolar manic depression. I`ve got a rich history of that in my family. Our family has publicly gone into therapy, so that`s out in the open.

I have no problem with straight actors playing gay, but I always feel like I can tell. Does that sound horrible?

There`s an old saying in Hollywood: It`s not the length of your film, it`s how you use it.

If my parents were, like, plumbers, who knows what I would be doing?