Comedy is acting out optimism.

I've actually gone to the zoo and had monkeys shout to me from their cages, "I'm in here when you're walking around like that?"

Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.

Sometimes, keeping track of people. It's always a weird combination of worrying so much about the outside world, and not... you have to be more aware of the inner circle, the folks that matter.

Anything that is not funny at a certain point will be funny.

I want everyone out there in TV land to touch the TV. Touch the back of the TV and get a shock for Jesus.

Everyone has these two visions when they hold their child for the first time. The first is your child as an adult saying "I want to thank the Nobel Committee for this award." The other is "You want fries with that?".