The funniest people I know were, not necessarily troubled, but had a harder time in school or were shy or picked on or something like that. I think that you rely on it. Well, I don't think I'm cute and no one wants to hang out with me - I'd better start trying to make people laugh. I think there's an element of that in there.

With any show, when fans come up to you, they assume you're just like your character.

I'm not really the sex symbol type.

Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.

Being mean just for being mean's sake isn't funny.

Breaking is when someone starts to laugh in the middle of a scene, which is so fun to watch.

You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.