I'm not a very good actor, so I break character all the time.

[The people that worked on The Simpsons] just had good taste. They knew how to execute absurd jokes.

I have done some formal acting training, because I sucked at acting when I first got to Los Angeles. I'm still one of the worst actors and auditions out there.

I feel the acting conservatory taught me how to be a working actor in the 1700s. We learned stuff like 'to the back of the auditorium, to the back of the auditorium' and the liquid "u." 'The payment is duuue on Tuuuesday.' I also learned how to fence. If anything, when I moved to Los Angeles, I didn't fit in, in any way. I had to do comedy, because I was talking so pretentiously.

Let's hit the joke once and move on to the next joke and just keep it where we have as many jokes per square inch as possible.

Comedy is often about pain.

I think we give human beings too much credit. We're primates, you know.