You know, sometimes you can't just take an armadillo, put it in the barn, light it on fire and expect it to make licorice.

My Obama is getting pretty good ... I think I'll vote for whoever makes my portrayal easier. It takes time to put together a comic impression. It takes time to recognize the tics. Right now, for instance, I could do a dead- on Paul Ryan and people wouldn't recognize it. Personalities take a while to sin.

You know ladies and gentlemen, a long time ago , there were lots of people, but that was a long time ago

Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.

Am I not turtley enough for the Turtle Club? Turtle! Turtle!

I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.

That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.