I'd done a ton of movies here in Hollywood, and I realized that every movie I'd done was somebody's else's work and someone else's vision.

he says. ''I've been able to star in three movies in my career, and I still haven't done that.

I think life would be so much funnier if every day you saw someone walking down the street getting hit in the head by a monkey, don't you?

In 'There's Something About Mary' and 'Dumb & Dumber,' I ended up improvising quite a bit of my scenes, and later I didn't even remember what I'd said because I just winged it. When I went and saw the movie, I was as stunned as everyone else was.

I realized I could work for a manufacturer or a hospital, or I could work for a company that enables the manufacturer, the hospital, and everything else.

I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision.