I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success.

If you do something very successful, you will then be defined by it.

The trick is always to write in pairs because if at least two people find it funny, you've immediately halved the odds of it not being funny.

There is a strong ethical dimension to the best comedy. Not only does it avoid reinforcing prejudices, it actively challenges them.

What I don't like is dance music or hip hop or any of that sort of thing.

I think it's always funny when you see kids do Shakespeare.

I'm just attracted to playing people who are ostensible unlikable. That's not to say that there's something in there that makes you care. It might be that you just find them so awful that you just can't stop watching, like a car crash.