There is always pressure in any movie set. If you think about it, there is something that you memorize and it is almost like public speaking every day, all day. There is a crew of people, there are monitors and if you mess up, you have to do it until you get it right and then sometimes, you would go blank.

I have really good managers and agents who are very selective in what they send me.

What happened happened. What's gonna happen, is gonna happen.

Eddie Murphy is just so off-the-cuff and can make anything funny. You hope that someday you'll acquire that skill, but maybe you're born with that.

The joy of 'Crash' was that it was all about the work. It was my first real part. Before that, it was a line here and there, maybe a scene. 'Crash' was five scenes, a beautiful arc, a little vignette of my own. It really meant something.

I grew up reading the newspapers, mostly the sports section. I was a wrestler and would check to see if I was ranked.

A good comic explores the imagination, but it's always got to have those notes of truth running through it.