Comedy is more difficult. You can look at scenes when you're doing a drama like, “Maybe it works,” but in comedy, when you're doing it, either it works or it doesn't. You have to keep doing it until it does, and the requirement is more.

There's a tacit agreement today that the white male is the only legitimate target for any and all satire, criticism, and so forth. And we pretty much just accept it.

Women are sort of like motorcycle gangs with me. They get really shy and polite. I don't know why.

I just know that sameness, repetition, and conceptualizing are the acting craft's adversaries, and it seems more intelligent to start off within a framework where those things are, to some degree, taken out of your hands.

I have never lied to you, I have always told you some version of the truth.

The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.

I'd give my goddamned soul for just a glass of beer.