'The Office' is less a comedy than so many other "comedies" that have been on the air. It's really about the balance between what is real and what is comic.

Regret is just perfectionism plus time.

I'm a believer in trusting the director.

Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.

Nobody remembers how long anything takes; they only remember how good it was in the end.

The most exciting thing I aspire to do is to write something new that I know is going to work, or perform something that I know is going to make people laugh.

It's not always enough to be brave, I realized years later. You have to be brave and contribute something positive, too. Brave on its own is just a party trick.