When you're in a relationship with someone who's selfish, what keeps you in it is the fact that when they shine on you, it's this souped-up shine. And you feel like you're in the club. And you don't even know what club it is. You just know you want to stay in it.

My family isn't really Italian. We're more like Olive Garden Italian.

Backup dancers are completely respectable. They're the studio musicians of dance.

I couldn't recommend more that people put themselves in a situation where they can see a lot of work that they admire, and for free.

I thought if I could do stand-up comedy well enough, I could parlay it back into films - like Charlie Chaplin and Woody Allen did. They merged principles of comedy and drama together, and that's what my first film really was, a stab at that kind of comedy.

I shouldn't say bad things about the illiterate, though..I should write it. That way they won't find out.

I think the cleverness is inadvertent.