There are a lot of people who I look up to. I like what Ricky Gervais does, I also like Ron Howard. It's probably never going to happen, but if I had to pick a couple people, those are two.

I used to coach a lot of hockey. I'd love to be a hockey coach, a bit more of a dramatic role and not comedic. I would go back to my hockey roots, that would be fun.

I think our biggest goal is to laugh.

Relief. Excitement and relief. Relief is definitely the key word.

I don't look for [comedic moments] actually, I just live my life.

I never used to be as good, you get better. I've just gotten better and quicker at figuring out the joke.

We don't really have a star system in Canada, so to try and get people to watch your show or stand-up is always a challenge. That's the trick.

I try to be a good cop. I try to be a good little soldier and follow orders up to a point. But in the end I’m not really a cop, or a soldier. I am a legally sanctioned murderer. I am the Executioner.

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual I'm too abstract I think too much.

A learned woman is thought to be a comet that bodes mischief whenever it appears.

I've always been pretty good at remembering the details about certain things.

We prefer to think that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source.

Something about New York, man: You can do more comedy there probably than you can anywhere in the world. If you're interested in being funny, New York is the place to go.

The pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn't stop short of insanity.

What happened in the Western world was that Plato ceased to be the way people thought. Aristotle was rediscovered, and the modern, educated world moved toward Aristotelian thinking.

I've never done a solo tour. I feel like getting out there and doing that.

Faith is the courage to face reality with hope.