Sometimes girls would come in and audition and they'd talk down, and it was like, "No, no, talk to the human eye level."

The moment I do any puppy dog acting, I think the joke is dead. It's in the truth of how I play it, and the real painful honesty that I approach my performance with.

So many young pets burn out in Hollywood, it's crazy.

To open the majority of peoples' minds to something new is difficult. I always think that, as long as it's funny underneath, then you can argue that a teaspoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.

I'm fascinated in the children within adults.

I want to do different projects and be versatile. I don't want to get fixed into narrative comedy.

I've been insane for a long time. An ex-girlfriend of mine once asked, "Is it true that all comedians are depressed?," and I said, "Every one I know is."