I wish I could take what I'm feeling right now and put it in the water system, and we would all love each other.

I never planned to win an Oscar. When I auditioned for Ray, I was just thinking about what a great project it would be.

You gotta have the balls to go out there and be funny, man.

If you look at how long the Earth has been here, we're living in the blink of an eye. So, whatever it is you want to do, you go out and do it.

Man, after all my grandma put into me learning the piano, that was a hard day, telling her I was telling jokes for a living.

Connecting with my daughter is the most important thing in my life - the priority. I want to be a man who shows up for her. I want to have such a big influence on her, so that she knows she can call me about anything, which she does.

Also, I think having that comic gene kind of makes you look at things in a different way. If you take yourself so seriously, eventually you end up one of those people having a 'Do Not Disturb' sign on their lives. You see them drawing the curtains and they don't even realize that they've kind of drifted off somewhere.