Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion, just thinking foolishly that you will be able to do what you want to do

If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs.

I'm still technically employed by the National Broadcasting Company.

I work, and then whenever I have any other time, I'm with my daughter, and then I go to sleep. I think you basically have to abandon the dreams of having any other adult activities in your life. You have to go to sleep whenever your child goes to sleep. That's basically how we're doing it.

If you care about [the characters] as if they were real, that always helps.

One of the great things about doing animated movies is that you don't have to dress up or put on make-up.

(My proudest moment as a child was the time I beat my uncle Pierre at Scrabble with the seven-letter word FARTING.)