I actually went to film school, but I didnt like it. Im basically self-taught.

I'm an extra dark black belt in ping pong.

I'm actually banned from the Himalayas, because I'm too good at yoga.

I do uphill skiing; I don't do downhill skiing. I think that's for nerd amateurs.

I think I've proven with my career that I can play a wide variety of characters. Yet, I still get typecast as the crazy slob guy. That's how it always works.

You jump on a bike and start peddling. You fall down and you get up again. I've always been a 'learn by doing' kind of guy.

Stand-up comedy is the most relaxing thing I do. If I want to unwind and de-stress, I go out and do stand-up, often several shows in a night.

Tina Fey is really cool. She's so mellow and laid back.

I don't consider lacrosse a sport. To me that's just a frat activity that got out of hand.

I had not met Tina Fey before I auditioned for 30 Rock. Some people think were old friends from Second City days. I had always been a fan of Tinas. But I actually never planned on being in a sitcom.

I never got into things to be famous. Sometimes its fun, sometimes its annoying.

In times of war, as in life, surround yourself with people of value, virtue and high morals, because it's always better to lose, perish and vanish in glory than to live in shame.

The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound.

Man is born a barbarian, and only raises himself above the beast by culture.

Computer programs are the most complex things that humans make.

I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.

Who does not more admire Cicero as an author than as a consul of Rome?

Break my heart. Break it a thousand times if you like. It was only ever yours to break anyway.

There is no doubt that our last state will be worse than our first, if we surrender our reason into somebody's keeping.

No one on his deathbed ever said, "I wish I had spent more time on my business."

It's not the COUGH that carries you OFF. . . . It's the COFFIN they carry you OFF IN.