You have an internal critic, an internal drive that says, 'OK, you can do more.' Maybe that's what keeps you going.

I can be trained, I can actually show you how intelligent I am, I can use a word like delicatessen and know what it means.

In down times I do things like go for a long bike ride or run. The other thing I'm doing in that quiet time is just observing.

I did an event in Washington, and it was like we lifted a sea.Immediately after [9/11], there was a stunned shock - kind of this feeling of "What do we do now?" I started performing, and there was a catharsis in the laughing. People started to be able to laugh again. Laughter can be many things - sometimes a medicine, sometimes a weapon, depending on.

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

Boys, you must strive to find your own voice, because the longer you wait to begin the less likely you are to find it at all.

It's the same sex all the time.