I'm very wary with impressions - I don't think I'm very good at impressions, I hate doing them.

I was a bartender at a Pizzeria Uno's for nine years. The people I worked with were amazing, but it was quite possibly the most miserable time of my life.

I steal props from SNL a great deal. Almost every sketch Im in, I try to grab something from it, so I have a storage space full of props.

My mom makes something called green pie, which I thought was a delicacy that many people only had at Thanksgiving, but it turns out it was just Jell-O with whipped cream on it. And it's delicious.

When I was at Upright Citizens Brigade, I would pretend to be a sad, drunk rapper.

In my mind, not in real life. My rap name will be Optimus Rhymes. Or the Notorious B.o.B.

These days with the web, you can burn out a character really quick.

Me, Billy Crystal and John Goodman hang out non-stop, and all we do is silly voices. We hang out in a little closet and do voices together.

If you watched 'Lost,' sometimes the episodes were crazy good and sometimes you're like, "That one was just sorta there."

I'm not very big on politics. I'm a comedian and not that smart. I don't have the mind capacity for it.

I'm very bad with music. I don't know any new music. I've listened to the same 10 or 12 albums my whole life.

If people call your work perceptible, be it in positive or negative terms, do ask them about what made them draw that conclusion.

knowledge of our own mortality is the greatest gift God ever gives us.

The laugh-count is right up there with being diagnosed with late-stage cancer.

The social relations of capitalism have penetrated slowly into all spheres of life to make wage labour the general condition of existence only in fairly recent times.

For as long as I can remember, I have written songs because I wanted to, because I was experiencing something that couldn't be described except through a sound.

The problem with prostitution in my experience is that it's often unsatisfying.

Failure is the most important part of an artist's training, and one you cannot afford to do without.

If you want to be clever in your picture, don't let anybody catch you at it. If they catch you, you're not clever.

We need to recognize that part our political problem is that we do not participate effectively, that we suffer from a kind of mental slumber.

Gratitude is pure happiness. Happiness is sure perfection.