Members of the Senate and House, if they want to send troops into war, should be forced to send a family member. That would really make everyone stop and go, ‘Ohhh-kaaay.’
Oftentimes, even as a little kid, I would get up before anyone else. My brother would still be sleeping, my mom would still be sleeping, so I would literally play ‘Monopoly’ by myself. I would play board games; I would do things by myself.
Saturday Night Live is such a comedy boot camp in a way, because you get to work with so many different people who come in to host the show and you get thrown into so many situations and learn how to think on your feet, so filmmaking actually feels slow, in a good way.
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?
I think anyone who has, you know, is in any sort of artistic pursuit, kind of goes up and down with the way they feel about their work. And I, for the most part, am pretty happy person. But, yeah. I go through definite periods of time where I’m not funny. I’m not good. I’m – I don’t feel original.
When you look at someone like Sacha Baron Cohen, you have to really respect the boundaries he is pushing as Bruno or Borat.
I love playing the macho guy who looks like an idiot.
Inappropriate behavior makes me laugh.
No matter how much you screw up your life, you can fix it.
There’s nothing sexy about Orange County.
All you have in comedy, in general, is just going with your instincts. You can only hope that other people think that what you think is funny is funny. I don’t have an answer but I just try to plough straight ahead.
Aren’t we all striving to be overpaid for what we do?
I think politics have gotten vulgar and we comedically portray that.
By the time I was ready for college, I didn’t know what I wanted to do. I think I secretly wanted a show business career, but I was suppressing it.
I guess ultimately a lot of comedians just wanna be taken seriously.
I know the nature of comedy, and you never know what will happen with the next movie or whether people will find it funny.
A lot of the times you read something and you don’t realize that you are going to have to do the things that you read.
I don’t really have aspirations to be Tom Hanks.
I grew up in an entertainment family, and so I saw how susceptible you are to the ups and downs of this business.
New York is a fun town to go out in. During my twenties and into my thirties I had a good time partying, yes. But nothing where I woke up and I thought that I had a problem.