I identify myself as a stand-up first. Even though lately there's been an explosion of acting on my schedule.

As you get older, as a comedian, and keep doing it, what you actually start to cherish on stage is not the build-up to the jokes, but how comfortable you can be in the silence and the non-laughing parts, and how long you can take the audience without a laugh to then get a huge reaction.

I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, 'Well, I've had it with humanity.' But I was wrong.

You have to be ruthless with yourself, in terms of being honest about what is working and what is not.

I never said that movies were struggling behind TV. I'm just saying that movies have a better creative cache.

Stand-up is something I just truly love to do, so I'll always go back to it. I'll never stop doing it, that's for sure.

There's nothing wrong with doing comedies, and I'm not against comedies, either, but I always want to do stuff that keeps me off my guard and gets me out of my comfort zone.