As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

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.

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, 'The good outnumber you, and we always will.'

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

This sounds like a brag, but I know how to make good fried rice. I learned in college. There are two secrets - take the rice after you cook it and let it get cold in the fridge. Then cook the egg like you're making a fried egg and just before it's done, dump the rice and veg on it and swirl it around.

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 really had to imagine the kind of person that I would have been if I had never left my hometown... I don't think I would have been a very pleasant person.