I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to kind of navigate the world fairly easily because I'm always in character.

I had auditioned for 'Saturday Night Live' two or three times before and never really saw myself there. I looked up to Belushi and Bill Murray and Aykroyd and I never saw myself as in their world.

If I only ran when nothing hurt, I would never run.

While many comics have a secret persona, I fundamentally want to be myself.

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

I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff.

A mom and dad found an S&M magazine under their 10-year-old son's bed, and the dad said, 'Well, we sure can't spank him.'