I don't think of myself as funny - I don't fill up a room with my humor... I would fail miserably as a stand-up comedian.

I think when someone who's known for doing drama does a comedy but just tries to be funny, that's a mistake.

Instead of telling our young people to plan ahead, we should tell them to plan to be surprised.

[And on going from character to leading actor] I don't approach anything differently; I just approach it as a character. I'm always astounded at the fact that I've ever played a leading character in anything [Laughs]. And my wife concurs with that, frankly. She always thought I would be, at best, the wacky neighbor on a sitcom, so this is all just a surprise and a joy.

I look at improvising as a prolonged game of chess. There's an opening gambit with your pawn in a complex game I have with one character, and lots of side games with other characters, and another game with myself - and in each game you make all these tiny, tiny moves that get you to the endgame.

Six-year-olds are very wrapped up in their own lives, and that's the way it should be.

Some people just derive great joy from making other people laugh. And I do, but I don't feel like I need to do it 24 hours a day.