I've got no dark secrets, I wasn't beaten up, my parents were kind to me and there was a low crime rate where we lived. Maybe that's where the comedy comes from, as some sort of reaction to the safe, boring suburbs.

I’m just a big, hairy, American winning machine!

'Elf' has become this big holiday movie, and I remember running around the streets of New York in tights saying, 'This could be the last movie I ever make,' and I could never have predicted that it'd become such a popular film.

I know the nature of comedy, and you never know what will happen with the next movie or whether people will find it funny.

I'm a really good swimmer.

When I first started doing sketch comedy, I promised myself that if I were ever to have any success in this business, I wouldn't hold back. Why get there and play it safe?

Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are.