Everybody should be normal. Everybody should be nice. I think they go hand in hand, and that to me is the default setting.

I joined an improv group in college, which was a lot of fun. After I graduated, I moved to Chicago to try to get into the Second City.

Well, on a personal level, I would never want to take on a character who didn’t have some redeemable qualities. Even the worst of people, such as Michael Scott in The Office [Carell’s character in the US version of the Ricky Gervais sitcom], have some decent human qualities that you can latch onto.

I had a lot of coaches growing up that were very hard on the kids in the name of building character, but it could have the opposite effect on kids.

I am always the type of person who is waiting for the other shoe to drop and for it to peter out and end. And if it does that's fine.

Actors and magicians are both performers and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are.

It's nice to find people who live on the fringe, finding one another and she's just unrelentingly funny.