If I have to play an obnoxious character, try to find a redeeming feature of him. The most obnoxious people in the world were people, and they had had a reason for doing what they did. So you try to find that and let the obnoxiousness come out.

I've found over the years that for some reason, people either are big fans and have to use me, or they don't quite understand what I'm doing.

I like the characters that have some redeeming quality or if it's interesting to me in any way.

In this last movie, I gave it quite a lot of thought to my character, and I fell back on a lot of managers and agents that I've had, and my early New York days where comics would sit around a table doing jokes and the managers would have jokes, and so I based it on a lot of that.

I first became interested in 'great moments' when I read about the famous Feller-to-Boudreau pickoff play in the 1948 World series.

Chris, listen to me, put down the gun and let the marching band go. We'll play it off as a prank.