Waiting for opportunities in the entertainment industry is an impossibility; they are not coming. You have to make your own.

The more people's money you take to do something, the more inputs you get.

Yes, I am complimented on my work in Kids in the Hall once or twice a week. Its a nice feeling.

I feel like I'm the most well-adjusted character on the show, even though I'm sure the other actors would tell you the same thing about their characters.

That's the other thing about working on movies, the commitment is years. That's one thing that's so frustrating about the process is that it goes on and on and on for years.

If you just want to be a writer, I don't care, for pitching, for writing dialogue, you should take an improvisation class. It's super important.

The first record I bought with my own money was Rio.

I'm always doing what I can to look for and just feel out funny things that are happening in the scene and improvise off of them.

People love that monkey torture.

If you're a studio writer, the funny better be on the page.

Writing studio movies is the best job in the world... it's awesome.

A ray of light made a rainbow through the mist. [His] words had given her a small glimmer of hope — the kind of hope she thought had disappeared from her life forever.

90% problems of line can be solved by dropping them and remaining 10& can be solved by effort

It is pointless to complain about the problems of the world as long as we continue contributing to them.

And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?

The beach is definitely where I feel most at home. It's my oxygen. I forget how much I need it sometimes when I'm away working.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

I was an insurgent. I was, you know, an outsider. And I'm not sure that I'm not better being an outsider.

Those fields which most depend upon authoritative opinion for their data least contain known natural law.

You could get the money, you can get the power, but keep your eyes on the final hour.

Men... look back on the children who were once themselves, and attempt to reconstruct them. But they can no longer think like the child.