I think the culture of Civil War re-enacting is also incredibly fascinating.

I mean the fun part about when Andy Bernard sings on The Office is he usually embellishes the songs in fun, stupid ways. That's just something that I do in life, like in the shower or whatever. So a lot of that stuff is pretty spontaneous.

I'm pretty sure no one's reading action scripts saying, 'This has got to be Ed Helms.'

So long as your desire to explore is greater than your desire to not screw up, you're on the right track.

There is something beautiful in the mundane if you take enough microscope to it and focus in on something that seems innocuous to begin with.

I had envisioned doing comedy since childhood. For sure.

It was never tough [ being the new guy]. It's just the warmest group of people [The Office stuff] you could ever hope to work with.