I started out being a stand up and writing my own material. That took me to Talk Soup, where I was writing and performing for TV. So everything is all the same job in my eyes, and I don't want to ever give up any part of it. I will say that stand-up is my first love; it's how I got started and is in my bones.

On general principle, I boycott shows that don't employ actors.

I don't want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.

I always wanted to be as busy as possible so that if one job went away I'd still have plenty of other things to do.

The best advice anybody could have given me was to keep getting up over and over again.

Real success and accomplishment, at whatever it is you are passionate about, requires real work. Real sacrifice. Real disappointment. Real failure. And it requires the ability to scrape your sorry ass up off the floor, stumble to your feet, wipe the rivulets of watery drool from your face, and do it again, like an obstinate toddler running against the wall with his head in a bucket.

Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.