I think love can come fairly easily and grow - but really liking the core essence of someone is a much harder thing to bottle. If you have both, you're in pretty good shape.

You have to be proactive about your destiny and then realize that the other half of it is completely out of your control. I think it's fascinating.

I would never say never to returning to comedy.

If you can jump up onstage and make people laugh, shouldn't you also be able to inhabit a character?

Throw your children in the surf and let them get used to it. They have to learn all about rips and tides and swimming between the flags and all that sort of stuff. I know that sounds ridiculous but it's true.

I think you need to be able to see a lot of negative in things in order to extract material, so there's probably something to that. A lot of the people I used to work with were very, very, very unfunny offstage, so that's a pretty common thing.

I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination.