When I tell people I'm a comedian they say, 'Oh, are you funny?' I say, 'No, it's not that kind of comedy.'

Sometimes when you have to go into something, unless you're gifted and can just turn it on and off like a jukebox, you find someplace where there's nothing going on to get yourself into whatever state your character is entering into.

To become a lapsed Catholic, first go to a Catholic university.

Kurt Vonnegut wasn't a chatty guy, but when he spoke, it was always clear and very funny, in the way that he wrote, in a very specific kind of combination of word groupings and expressions that lived somewhere else.

If you can just see all the children of the world as your own, all the mothers of the world as you are, we can make a huge difference.

We stand a chance of getting a president who has probably killed more people before he gets into office than any president in the history of the United States.

Sometimes what happens is that, when you micromanage actors and moments, it just doesn't quite live.