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

It's been a tough year. . . Someone said I should send out Buddhist thank-you cards since Buddhists believe that anything that challenges you makes you pull yourself together.

[On creating] And you get that little endorphin buzz, it's great. Why do you think Einstein looked like that? I don't think he was going "You know this is some dynamite weed! It's all relative you know."

Compassionate conservative. I don't know what that is, it sounds like a Volvo with a gun rack.

It's always great when you want scientific fact to get a really good science fiction writer to talk to you about it.

My mother's idea of natural childbirth was giving birth without makeup. She was hyper-positive - the world is a wonderful place, rainbows and unicorns. If you said anything contrary to her, you were basically exiled.

If I could light my own farts I could fly to the moon or at least Uranus.