I had a lot of fans in New York. The press would write about me, but I couldn't get a paying job.

I came back to New York after college like any number of struggling performers, and you just find that niche where you can have some sort of impact. And for me that turned out to be comedy.

I can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.

I have a medical condition, all right. It's called caring too much, and it's incurable. Also, I have eczema.

For some reasons, I have WWE wrestlers tweeting me all the time. Like, my biggest fans. Why they can connect with my love for Meryl Streep, I don't know.

If you really think you have something good, you can't take no for an answer. You've got to get in there and ignore the people who say no.

My father and I were really like a team. I mean, he was very supportive. He'd come to every single one of my live shows.

I've had a lot of arguments with people, but it's never really gotten physical.

I'm not a big reality show fan, because I just think it's too fake.

Hotmail just picked up 12 new episodes of 'Judging Amy'.

Difficult People? I don't really know. I don't have those metrics.

Courage is not the absence of fear. Hope is not the absence of trouble. Joy is not the absence of pain. Love is not the absence of obstacles.

when you believe inyourself, other people will believe inyou, too.

Hopelessness sets in, when a man is bound up in his shame -- living small, within that closed horizon of fantasy and self-absorption.

it is rather depressing to think that one will still be oneself when one is dead, but I dare say one won't be so critical then.

The purpose of art is to stop time.

Humble birth did not retard his genius, nor high place corrupt his soul.

Get rid of the shitty sound. Life's too short.

Bad guys have always been my bag... I look mean without even trying.

Never give up hope. Situations can change over night, problems can dissolve in the light of a new day's sun.

The ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world.