You're supposed to have one hand up and one hand down. As you're trying to going up, you're trying to pull someone up at the same time.

There are a lot of actors that are more talented than me at Second City who quit it before they even got to a paying status. Weird luck. I had no other option.

Totie Fields is one of my benchmarks for a lot of things. There was a standard of show business.

I improvise whenever I feel it's important, or whenever I think that something's there. It's nice to have a script that's so well-written that I don't have to improvise. I mean, I used to have to re-write whole movies; this is kind of nice.

I'm a nut, but not just a nut.

I think if you can take care of yourself, and then maybe try to take care of someone else, that's sort of how you're supposed to live.

I don't feel like it's pressure. It's more of an obligation - not to entertain or be funny, but to have a certain levity. I mean, there's got to be a lightness in your leg. You have to be as light as you can be, and you don't have to be weighted down, stuck in your emotions and stuck in your body, stuck in your head. You just want to try and elevate something.