It is hard to keep a straight face during comedy scenes. It's considered really bad form to laugh at someone else because you can ruin their best take. But sometimes it's very hard not to.

My theory about comedians is that their greatest fear is other people laughing at them. So comedy is an attempt to control and manipulate the thing they find most frightening.

We would all believe in God if he served our every whim. Belief is not about an easy life or even truth. Belief is something you have regardless.

He'd made sure i had something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue.

I think what I am is a "convener"; I like to convene people around ideas.

I lost my job, well I didn't lose it, I know where it is, there's just some other guy doing it now.

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple

The promises of higher education and previously enviable credentials have turned into the swindle of fulfillment.

You might be a redneck if the biggest fashion risk you take is which plaid you'll wear to the 4-H Fair.

It's always been too slow for me. Playing. The pace of things. I'm a fast sprinter. The trouble was, after playing in the group for a few months, I couldn't reach that point.

The best piece of advice that I have ever received is from my mom. And she said, "Do you, boo boo." That is forever going to be the best advice.