When you grow up in Chicago, your whole family is counting on you to go to college and do something distinguished. The last thing you're thinking is that you're going to make a career in show business.

No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form.

I realized that my righteous indignation was a form of entertainment for me. I loved getting pissed off at injustice. I didn't do anything about it, I just liked the feeling of being pissed off.

You can't love somebody into a state of mental health.

Find the most talented person in the room and if it's not you, go stand next to him. Hang out with him. try to be helpful.

I'd rather do comedies that strike at some bigger ideas.

I look for the meaning in what's funny, and I look for what's funny about things that are meaningful to me.