One of the things that makes any good entertainment, whether it's a play, drama, comedy, television, film, whatever, is that you feel a certain amount of spontaneity.

Anything that you really pour your heart and soul into is always rewarding. The most rewarding thing is probably making each other laugh.

Sometimes presenting the most ignorant point of view can be the best way to satirize the issue and highlight that ignorance.

One of my biggest pet peeves is that I just don't like it when characters do things that are funny to the writer, but you don't know why they're doing it and it doesn't make any sense.

I take my work very seriously, and that's the only way for it to be fun for me.

It always stings a little bit when somebody doesn't like what you put out there, or at least it does for me. I don't take it too much to heart, and it doesn't change anything.

I can never remember the name of anywhere I've ever been. I will say that I've eaten at a ton of GREAT places. I just don't remember their names. I'm not that guy.

When you have a clear idea of what your character is trying to accomplish, it makes it a lot easier to riff on things.

I'm really bad at writing jokes.

Leadership is simple, if the leaders starts to serve first.

The argument could be made that the word 'hero' is overused. I do not think, however, that this is the case when referring to teachers.

The golden age is not in the past, but in the future; not in the origin of human experience, but in its consummate flower; not opening in Eden, but out from Gethsemane.

Revolutionary consciousness is to be found among the most ruthlessly exploited masses: animals, trees, water, air, grasses

If I'm going east and west, nothing's happening

There is no excess in the world so commendable as excessive gratitude.

If art were to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

stop spying on the lawful citizenry. Democracy and dossiers go ill together. It is all right for God but all wrong for the State to keep its eye on sparrows.

I know American football. I know a little bit about soccer. I know baseball, I know basketball. But, rugby is a foreign language.

I never saw myself not being a stand-up. That was my plan.