If you're going to do something that lasts 90 minutes, you can't really do it with stick figures.

The hardest work most of us do is maintaining the appearance of normality.

Here's a guy [Richard Nixon] who had no gift for small talk, never liked to be around strangers, was physically awkward, and he goes into the one business that calls for ease with strangers and a gift for small talk.

If Nixon were a Republican senator today, he would have been primaried out.

I think in most cases, if you're with good people, comedy creation happens faster in collaboration. That's how I can tell if it's a good collaboration: If it's faster than me by myself, then it works. If it's slower than me by myself, then I get out of the room.

I think the British learn their history through the prism of this gallery of grotesques known as the royals.

Privilege has its own way of seeing the world. It's not about the kind of people they are; it's about the situation they're in.