I've always been very open about it. I've been very open about my addiction, about my panic disorder. But I think that transparency is what can separate you from others because I think that is where comedy is going.

The first time I watched [Keith] Olbermann, his opening monologue, I completely changed the way I approached my radio show.

There is a lot of acting that is on the table - precisely, good acting. The best movies of mine are the ones that really nobody saw. The Groomsmen, Playing By Heart and Seeing Other People are by far the work I'm the most proud of.

I'm a comic because I don't want to do the nine-to-five, I have to modify that and say I'm a comic because I have an inability to do a nine-to-five.

I realized early I can manipulate the ceiling in the middle class. The allure becomes how far I can make the ceiling rise.

I'm oddly not competitive. What I love about show business is there is a home for everyone.

You could teach [George] Carlin in college. It's the construction of the word and the order of things and how they go. How all those sentences are timed perfectly.