I love polarizing people.

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.

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 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.

Liberals have managed to eliminate the idea of manly honor. Instead, all they have is womanly indignation.

Cousins are forever and forever are cousins they stand by your side for you no matter what.

I think I must admit so fair a guest when it asks entrance to my heart.

Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can't do that. It's gone, gone forever.

Actors already striving in the theatre wouldn't dream of putting themselves on these shows; it means that only about 10% of the talent out there is being auditioned for parts.

Erik is not truly dead. He lives on within the souls of those who choose to listen to the music of the night.

I've always been hopelessly stuck in the present.

What do great artists do when you see a world around you that's in turmoil? Some of the best artists make you feel good (hah), they look to the future.

They [the union] were members of the Communist Party - they didn't care one way or another about Russia, they just cared about the United States.

It’s the combination of improbability with an independently given pattern that discredits chance.