I am happily married, and I think I was lucky that success came a little later in my life. It’s difficult to handle all the attention when you are a young gun.
People say, ‘What’s the secret to a marriage?’ There’s no secret – I think you get lucky.
Your brain, like your tongue, is a muscle. Practicing thinking by yourself really helps develop your brain, which you need throughout your day. I like to practice my thinking in a darkened room, alone.
We are all facing the end one day or another. I say, live a good and prosperous life, make sure your choices count, make them count.
For my wife and I, the challenge is to not make every day the best day possible because it’s not realistic.
Divorce is fairly common these days, and I think many times people disregard the emotional impact that divorce has on a couple and a family, because it happens so frequently.
In an enclosed space, a camel’s breath can change the atmosphere of the room. Not only just the smell, they literally seem to change the atmospheric pressure. It’s so disgusting. It’s like they have eight stomachs each more rancid then the next and it just comes out of their mouth.
I can get lazy. I don’t think I’m a very driven person. When I have work, I work very hard. But when I don’t work, I really don’t do anything. I could easily just fade away.
There’s such a freewheeling nature to ‘Second City,’ and the greatest thing about ‘Second City’ was having a sophisticated audience night after night who appreciated what it was. They knew it wasn’t all going to be great when you improvised, so they were very forgiving that way.
Some people just derive great joy from making other people laugh. And I do, but I don’t feel like I need to do it 24 hours a day.
Anything nice that’s said about me is diametrically opposed to who I am.
People just like to be on camera. There’s a huge desire to be in front of the camera, and once there, people will say and do almost anything. It’s sort of a drug, and I think people get addicted to it.
It’s harder when people are playing along, because it’s just not as funny. They’re trying to be funny, and it sort of cancels out the whole joke.
It’s interesting when you’re trying to create a character in animation. It’s really a communal effort.
Like most people, I have painful memories of trying to fit in as a child. I wore, said, and did pretty much what everyone else did.
I’m not good with pickup lines or flirting. I don’t have that kind of self-confidence or natural charisma.
Maybe the coolest people are the ones who don’t care about being cool.
Steve Buscemi is hilarious. He’s really, really good with improv.
I’ve thought a lot about success, because it’s very strange to me that I’ve been successful.
When someone is good, but it doesn’t seem like their world will collapse if they don’t get the part, it’s more appealing. It’s like dating someone: You don’t want someone who’s too into you.