Thankfully, perseverance is a good substitute for talent.

Home to me is when someone comes up to me and says, "Can I get a selfie?" No. It's where your wife and your family are. It's the emotional place where you feel like you're not away from it.

[her] mind blackens. The blackness is not a thought, but if it could be pressed into a thought, if a chemical from a dropper could be dripped onto it causing its color and essence to become visible, it would take the shape of this sentence: Why does no one want me?

I thought 'Borat' was a breakthrough comedy, because it was really funny. It wasn't some studio-produced script with 14 writers.

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.

You can't make something beautiful by trying to make something beautiful. Something becomes beautiful in the process of trying to be something else.

I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive.