Hollywood is the kind of place that takes what you do well in one thing and manufactures it so the joy can be taken out of it.

I don't know if I'd call myself a prodigy, but I was a big forensics competitor in high school, and then during college I spent some time working at speech and debate camps as a coach.

I'm unfortunately very verbose too often.

I do have a dirty sense of humor.

When I left college, I was out of work for three years. I had this dream of being on 'SNL,' and that was all I could imagine.

When you have a kid, it changes your life. It reminds you, this is my life now: I'm responsible for this tiny person. It's so surreal.

I love polarizing people.

I was trained as a straight dramatist.

In real life, Josh [Gad] is a different kind of lovable idiot. In real life, he's a much filthier idiot. He has a dirty sense of humor.

I was like a Borscht Belt comedian trapped in the body of a 6-year-old. I was channeling Jackie Mason at 7.

I certainly never imagined 80-year-olds singing along, like they were watching Cats. I'm fascinated by that kind of pop cultural zeitgeist that it's attached itself to.

When you come to the edge of all that you know, you must believe one of two things: either there will be ground to stand on, or you will be given wings to fly.

Let me tell you, I fall asleep on planes with my mouth open, and it certainly doesn't look very attractive.

The world is full of places to which I want to return

God's desire is that we excel.

As soon as you give your heart to something new you will immediately be able to think in a way that is new.

People still tell me I’m fat, but when I look in the mirror, that’s not what I see.

I played the tour in 1967 and told jokes and nobody laughed. Then I won the Open the next year, told the same jokes, and everybody laughed like hell.

An atheist's laugh 's a poor exchange For Deity offended!

So, if you feel a smile begin, don't leave it undetected, let's start an epidemic quick, and get the world infected!

Taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.