I guess ultimately a lot of comedians just wanna be taken seriously.

I think people don't understand that comedy is an outlet for me. Comedy allows me to get outside of myself, and exercise this thing that is still kind of scary to me.

Molly Shannon and I used to always talk about that we really felt strongly that we were comedic actors, that we weren't comedians. You just played things real and the comedy came out of the context.

I have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-four per cent of the time.

There’s a benefit to losing, you get to learn from your mistakes.

I'm the minority in my house sometimes. My wife is Swedish, and we go to Sweden and everyone is rattling off in Swedish. It's like, 'OK, I can just read a book.'

You want every movie to be a hit. But every painting isn’t a masterpiece.