I started out performing as a little boy, I was trying to make my mother feel better and laugh because she was sick and in pain all the time. I found out that I had that power to relieve her.

I cannot be contained because I am the container.

If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression.

Psychologically, it's what I love to be. Tearing apart a person from the inside out.

Risk being seen in all of your glory.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

The character is what trips you up - the thing of, "I'm going to get so dark in this character that I'm going to get lost in a character." You can't get lost in a character. You can only think you're lost in a character.