You have to do real acting, not just do a voice.

I happened upon a memoir by a midlevel White House staffer, and he had been in the room that [Nixon's last] night [in office]. This guy's memoir told me what Nixon's last words were. And they were, on August 8, 1974, to the crew: "Have a Merry Christmas, fellas!" That was just so bizarre.

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.

The first thing you've got to do is know your craft, and then you can do something else with it.

I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines. Nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.

I would come back to public school for usually about half the year. It was actually better for me to be out of school a lot, because I was two years younger than everybody, which is a bad situation, socially.

Well Washington DC what are you going to do. They think the capitol steps are the state of the art in comedy. You try to drag them into the 20th century let alone the 21st and they refuse to come with you.