I think the radio is kind of cool, because you're really free to do whatever you want, because you can go into another world. Whereas in TV, you have to make that world.

You've got to try and do your best, and the failure is what's funny. But you can't be aware of the failure, you've just got to keep trying to do your best.

I was genuinely starstruck when I met Kermit the Frog. Like many stars here tonight, he's a lot shorter in real life.

There are a lot of good shows that don't get picked up. Like that Ben Stiller pilot, Heat Vision And Jack? That would have been a great show, but somehow it slipped by.

My acting's very understated. I think my sad and happy don't play that differently onscreen.

It's easy to struggle in New York. I think New York is a bit expensive.

I'm easy to get along with, and intolerant.

At the end of your life, you're lucky if you die.

Now it looks like I'll be known as the musical comedy guy. Which is good news for me. Or I'll be known as the New Zealand idiot.

I don't know, man. Look at me. I've changed. I've grown up. I've got a job, got a career ... I drink coffee now.

I definitely miss New Zealand. Mainly friends and family.

None can sense more deeply than you artists, ingenious creators of beauty that you are, something of the pathos with which God at the dawn of creation looked upon the work of his hands.

A mouse does not rely on just one hole.

I wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift.

When people direct insults at me, I can take it.

Will you come with me, sweet Reader? I thank you. Give me your hand.

Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.

Men have got more of a discerning eye. They appreciate cut and details, things that aren't so obvious. They like things that have cachet and gentlemanliness.

Sooner could a fish live upon a tree than the wicked in Paradise.

One demonstration of extremists, any more than a Ku Klux Klan demonstration in the United States, is not necessarily reflective of what the rest of the country feels.

All is possible for those who dare to die!