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

I'm a believer in trusting the director.

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.

Perfect. Why was this so hard to find?”The other type of perfect is the type you never could have expected and then could never replicate.

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.

I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.

I think it's better to not know certain things. It gives the world an extra bit of mystery, which is important to us as human beings.