With Ricky Gervais, it's all shades of wrong, it's my kind of humor.

There is absolutely, 100 percent, a light at the end of the tunnel for anyone who stutters.

If you're very open to watching the world go by, with people's different tics, you absorb it all without realizing it and find ways to put something into your character. I'm not sure I'm always aware I'm mimicking someone.

It's nerve-wracking singing in front of people. I think that's why most people get drunk for karaoke.

I love ambiguity. People are that way. People are very hard to work out. No one is just strong or just fragile, or anything like that.

If you can capture the humanity of a family struggling in an economic crisis you can make a difference. You can raise awareness just of the simple humanity.

If you're in America a lot, it's easy to get into playing American. All of it, the sounds, the energies, all very different. But it's really hard to do the accent. I tend to try and stay in it all day, which is the only way I can manage it.