If you really think you have something good, you can't take no for an answer. You've got to get in there and ignore the people who say no.

Award shows are fun, but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them.

Sometimes you go up to people who look totally normal and then you talk to them for a few seconds and you are like, Oh I better get out of this, because this person is a little mentally unbalanced, and they are not going to get a joke.

The camera guys can't mess up. God bless them, they hardly ever do. But they literally don't know what's going to happen next. None of us do. And it all has to come together and be funny.

I never fully committed to the child actor thing. I also liked being a regular kid and being a student.

I am invisible in gay bars.

I was very much an only child who was raised by the television and movies, and I grew up in New York. We weren't, like, rich people, but we were middle-class people and my parents supported this love I had for entertainment.