Toni Quotes

"I felt lower then than I did when I was 13 years old, I remember getting out of the limo with Toni and Christian Bale and walking towards all these photographers, and they were going, `Hey! Toni! Look over here! Hey, Christian, here!` And I just walked on because nobody had an idea who I was. It was a horrible experience." - Cannes Film Festival 1998

"My experience is that I find myself having to constantly define myself to others, day-in, day-out. The quote that`s helped me the most through that is from Toni Morrison`s "Beloved" where she says, "Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined" - so I find myself defining myself for other people lest I be defined by others and stuck into some box where I don`t particularly belong".

On his twin sons: "Originally we were going to name the baby Andy, because I was doing a film about Andy Kaufman. Then we learned we were having twins, and we said, OK, it will be Andy and Tony, after Andy`s famous character, Tony Clifton. But then my son`s wife gave birth to a daughter, and they named her Toni. I couldn`t have a Tony, so we chose Jim. When you choose names for your children, you want to name them after somebody you like very much, so the name will always ring beautifully in your ears. And that was how I felt about Jim Carrey."

I think the difference tonight was taking care of the ball on first contact and blocking better at the net, ... We got great serves tonight and we got solid play out of Jaclyn Toohey and Katie Kramer . We had more confidence as a team and really showed that tonight.