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

Anything's better than Gen X which is what we got. Thanks Douglas Coupland. We sound like a team of mutant vigalantees with frosted hair and chain wallets. Actually that's not completely horrible.

What I'm realizing as I get older is that a movie's mainstream success is just as unpredictable as a movie's cult success. Plenty of movies that are truly odd and deserve cults, don't have cults. It's just as much of a crapshoot to be a cult hit as it is to be a mainstream success. Isn't that weird?

I'm always trying out new stuff onstage. That's where I do all my writing.

What you want to worship above youth, I think, is beauty, and beauty is so beyond just appearances after a while. Because you can be with someone who's good-looking; if they open their mouths and they're an idiot, then they cease to be beautiful very quickly.

People will find transformation and transcendence in a McDonald's hash brown if it's all they've got.

Any comedian who tells you how dark and dangerous they are, they're not dark and dangerous.