It's funny, growing up there was never anybody around me with any kind of artistic bent.

Once you have a PhD, every meeting you go to becomes a doctor's appointment.

People keep referring to me as a standup, and that just doesn't sit well with me because a lot of my friends are standups and they're brilliant at writing jokes, and I'm not.

I've been working steadily as an actor since around 1998. I wasn't well known in the public, but I was a dependable working journeyman.

If properly dried and trimmed, New York-style pizza could be used to make a box for Chicago-style pizza.

When I was in fourth grade, we were learning vocabulary words, and the word nonconformist came up. The teacher said, "It's somebody who whatever everybody is doing, they do the opposite." I remember raising my hand and saying, "Mrs. Christiansen, I would like to be a nonconformist."

Not only do I recommend Wendell Berry to anyone who will talk to me for more than seven seconds, but I buy his books in quantity and send them to people. I bought a few dozen of his newest, "Our Only World."