Having to be nice all the time is exhausting and boring, but to play someone who just has that under layer of unhappiness, you know that it comes from someplace.

The rule is you have to dance a little bit in the morning before you leave the house because it changes the way you walk out in the world.

I've been trying to find the word that says what I need to be in life. 'Brave' is the only word. It's the only thing that I ask myself to be.

Uniqueness was something my mother pounded into me.

Everyone told me to pass on Speed because it was a 'bus movie.'

People who do comedy really are the nastiest people on the planet.

Latinos, Asians, African-Americans, women - we're all trying to find our place in this world of cinema and television and theater. And the great thing with comedy is that most of the time, you could be orange. It doesn't matter, as long you're funny.