I think I'm better wired for television. I love variety as far as a project. I'm easily bored and the schedule of a television show, it just keeps you going.

You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.

It's all I have left in my life, caffeine and a poodle.

I love strong women, not only in life but in craft.

I would probably be a teacher if I weren't a comedian.

My whole life, I've been telling jokes.

It's fun to play people who are flawed.

I believe it's a real tedious hostage negotiation to have a marriage be what it is.

There's a black man inside of me just trying to make bail.

I was very, very large as a kid and never athletic, and my home life was a little upside down and I never felt comfortable.

I think we love watching people that are flawed because we're all flawed.

But understanding will always require some effort. You probably wouldn't admire a friend who was good at everything if it cost her no effort.

I always heard criticism is the tax on fame. They were right. And then some.

Jobs are for lazy people who don’t want to invest in themselves.

Sometimes to keep it together you've got to leave it alone.

Suburbia is the insidious cartoon of the country house in a cartoon of the country.

Failures are expected by losers, ignored by winners.

November, I'll give thanks that you belong to me. December, you're the present beneath my Christmas tree.

When short guys start working out to bulk up. I like muscles, but I don't like really buff guys.

I grew up going to musicals with my mom here in New York, going to Broadway. I used to be in musicals in high school.

I used and abused drugs and alcohol. When I stopped doing that it became a lot clearer that life goes from inside to giving as opposed to taking and destroying.