I came in ["MADtv"] kind of late in the season. Some of the producers didn't want me but the network did. It was all (messed up) from the beginning.

It's always nice when someone says that they don't realize it's me on screen, but it would be strange to enter a one story while thinking of another character I do, which is completely different.

What I wanted to do was music, until I was about 16. But it was jazz and rock, never classical music.

To me the ambiguity is, maybe our perception of ourselves is always going to be different than somebody else's perception. There will always be that disparity.

Well, I think that everybody is kind of a nerd at heart.

Generally people are nice, but it's so weird that it has made me more cautious. Just like anyone else, I like looking around at my environment, but now as I walk down the street I tend to look down.

It's not really about confidence. It's just something that isn't really in the vocabulary of what goes on at work. The writers write and the actors act.

I was like, I can't believe I get to be in a scene with Meryl Streep [in Florence Foster Jenkins]! And then I was like, but why do I have to play Chopin? It's already going to be intimidating.

That is what's disconcerting about working on the show, you can't seem to get an instinct about what works and what doesn't. It happens a lot, and in different ways.

There's also these moments when you're like, oh, I really want to do different things. Not instead of this show [The Big Bang Theory]. It's just a hunger to do something else, too.

Im married, so I tend not to hit on every girl.

There is no other day. All days are present now. This moment contains all moments.

Your wits make others witty.

If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.

We don't have a revolution, and we don't have the time for evolution, where does it come from? It must come from some kind of shared experience that everybody agrees with.

In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.

I was never afriad of what was under the bed. I wanted it but never got it. I became it.

I love Richard Yates, his work, and the novel, Revolutionary Road. It's a devastating novel.

True believers just don't see things the way they are, because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.

Warranty – A notice telling the buyer when the product that was just purchased will no longer function.

Youth is an arithmetical statement of passing interest, each hour eats it up.