I was never the class clown or anything like that. When I was growing up and doing theatre in Seattle I was always doing very dramatic work... Now I can’t get a dramatic role to save my life!

You have to be willing to accept the idea that people may think you're stupid.

The eyes are the nipples of the face.

Instead of the mahi mahi, may I just get the one mahi because I’m not that hungry.

You have to create your own stuff. It's really exciting to create something, sell it, and feel like I'm not just a pawn waiting to be cast

Especially in the world of comedy, it feels like you have to be proactive, in terms of pitching and trying to sell and being a part of the creation of the stuff that you do.

The hardest thing in my industry is longevity, getting your next job. It's hard to get the first job, but it's so much harder to get the sixth or seventh as a woman.

Yeah, I do like scary movies, especially the ones that don't take themselves too seriously.

I try to keep my head on straight and take nothing for granted.

My comedy does not come from a place of deep cynicism, and I tend to play characters who are naive in some way.

I grew out my armpit hair for the summer. It turns out my natural hair colour isn't blonde.

I believe in love at first sight. I know it's real because I experienced it the moment I saw my wife for the first time.

Russia itself is an extremely complex country, and sometimes I feel like all of that comes back to haunt me. I can see why so many Russian writers were so tortured.

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.

Warfare is an utterly stupid method of settling differences of interest between different nations.

I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc.

Turning points in human consciousness occur when new energy regimes converge with new communications revolutions, creating new economic eras.

I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.

Generosity should never exceed ability.

I love spoilers, and I read spoilers all the time. I make people tell me the endings of movies before I go to see them, and yet I refuse to give spoilers. It's kind of unfair, but that's how I roll.

I want to keep winning, the hell with the record.