You never know when you'll have a bad idea for a worse joke.

You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current.

My dad is kind of a rascal, like in a Dickensian sense. He just goes from career to career.

I'd consider myself a flailing comedy writer.

Even the greatest actors have had dry spells where they've wondered if they were going to work again.

You think of George Washington, this man who was larger than life, and in some ways he was. But at the same time, he's just a person.

I went to Julliard and we did a lot of mask work there, and I remember thinking in class, 'When am I ever going to use this?