If I were a teacher, I would like to teach freshman English - so I could be the Robin Williams type in Dead Poets Society. I wanna be that guy. I couldn't teach seniors because they'd be smarter than me.

Aspire to do better. Instead of being the leader of the group, be the little person.

I never thought I'd be one of those guys who gets recognized.

All of a sudden Mindy [Kaling] was writing on The Office and had sold a TV show. When we'd try to write shows, we'd jokingly call the word documents "Hit Show." We just couldn't crack the code.

I always thought, if you're gonna do TV, you want to play a straight, solid, pillar-of-the-show kind of guy.

If I'm in a bar and I gotta be sitting next to some clown who's like, "It's my tune," I don't want to hear you belt out Bruce Springsteen. That's why we have jukeboxes! Let's let Bruce be Bruce.

My day job is acting - I wouldn't direct something if I didn't feel passionate about it.