Dan Harmon has this idea that characters on TV are allowed to talk about their favorite movies and TV shows and songs.

When you only hang out with performers, you start to feel like movies and TV and comedy is everything. Especially being in LA, where it feels like you walk into a coffee shop and you see 15 laptops with screenplays being written.

I like the Moth podcast a lot. I listen to that.

I have a hard time watching people getting punched on screen; I have to close my eyes a lot.

A lot of my friends are guys, so I'm used to bro antics.

I also think the more experienced you get as an actor, you start to hear the conversations about why people get cast and not cast, sometimes it's so arbitrary. They decided the moment you walked in the door. And there's nothing you could have done to sway them, even if you'd the greatest performance of all time.

I keep reminding myself, through all the ups and downs of 'Community,' that I might never have another job that really means something to people, the way 'Community' means something to people. [...] That's more powerful than ratings.