Before people figured out I was funny, I got cast quite a bit as either a rapist or serial killer or the guy who catches those people.

If you always have something in your life that you're trying to improve upon, then every day you have a reason to get out of bed, and you have a reason to achieve something and feel good.

My wife, the actress Megan Mullally, was an English major at Northwestern University and loves fiction. Like so many things in my life, she curates things for me. For example, I have the daunting prospect of Donna Tartt's "The Goldfinch" waiting for me when I get through my current reading pile.

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 split my life between a few different disciplines.

Your dreams are always going to seem much more profound to you then they are to your friend.

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