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I had many teachers that were great, positive role models and taught me to be a good person and stand up and be a good man. A lot of the principals they taught me still affect how I act sometimes and it's 30 years later.

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Good Person, Role, Affect, A Good Man

Back in '93 I saw my first UFC fight and just became enamored by it then.

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Back, Became, Saw, UFC

I think I invented the phrase 'Don't overdo it.'

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Think, I Think, Phrase, Overdo

If I do a movie where I have to have a son and it's a chubby kid, my mother is always like, 'You were never like that.' She gets so upset about it.

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Movie, Always, Upset, Chubby

As American as an apple is and as American as baseball is, they don't go together. You can't be chewing an apple at a baseball game. You've got to let go of the diet that day.

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Game, Go, Baseball Game, Chewing

Now I'm starting to jog. But every time I do jog I have 9-1 pressed into my phone, with the next '1' ready to be launched in case I drop.

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Drop, Next, Jog, Every Time

I try to connect with the everyday, every guy.

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Try, Guy, Every, Everyday

Once a year my back will go out and it'll be... it's like a sciatic thing and it's the smallest thing. Like I could be leaning over the sink to brush my teeth in a weird way and it happens.

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Year, Back, Smallest, Leaning

Every few months I'll pop into a comedy club or go to Vegas.

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Vegas, Pop, Months, Comedy Club

I don't want to be known as this goody-two-shoes who can only do comedies where puppies are licking peanut butter off my face.

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Want, Butter, Licking, Puppies

I could never be James Bond.

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Never, Could, James, James Bond

There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap.

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Food, Better, Warm, Lap

From there, I tried out for a community theatre play, joined an improv group... it all started opening up.

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Play, Started, Joined, Opening

I've always had something in my heart where I root for guys who struggle with women.

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Something, Always, Had, Root

I really wasn't a class clown.

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Class, Class Clown, Really, Clown

My favorite movie of all time is 'Rocky.'

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Time, Movie, Favorite, Rocky

I had my boy in Boston on Easter Sunday. That kills me, from a sports perspective. He's a Boston baby and I'm a New York guy.

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Sports, Boston, New, York

I just want to put some positive stuff out there. If it works, great. If it doesn't, no problem.

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Want, Some, Works, No Problem

I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously.

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Very, Took, Musical, Played

Just me onstage with a mike having an intimate relationship with the audience. I don't get nervous for that. I just get excited.

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Audience, Having, Mike, Onstage

A song can take you to a special time in your life.

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Song, Special, Take, Special Time

Teachers have a chance to mold someone, inspire them. I hope all teachers realize that.

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Chance, Teachers, Someone, Inspire

For some reason and I don't know why, but I don't think that I'm funny in California. So I always want to do my movies east somewhere.

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Reason, Some, Always, California

I want to do movies that I'm proud of where my kids, at some point, can see and I can feel comfortable sitting there watching it with them. And just that move people. That make people feel a little bit better about themselves when they leave the theatre.

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Feel, Some, About, Theatre

I never played music, but it's an important thing ... the studying, the inspiration.

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Music, Important, Never, Inspiration

I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit.

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College, Took, Little Bit, Public Speaking

I would always love to be an athlete, but it's got to be a tough day when you have to hang up those cleats.

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Love, Always, Hang, Athlete

You think school ends when it ends, but it doesn't.

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School, Think, You, Ends

Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.

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Good, Man, Thanksgiving, Pants

It's always cool to meet people who can do things that you have no capacity to do.

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Cool, Meet, Always, Capacity

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