You have to write a lot of scripts to get any scripts that are worth making.

Don't be a jerk. Try to love everyone. Give more than you take. And do it despite the fact that you only really like about seven out of 500 people.

College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.

Eventually, the nerds and the geeks will have their day.

For me, until I know that the audience really gets what I'm trying to communicate I'm not done.

In the writing, I'm just trying to go deeper, emotionally, and learn more about myself and reveal more and find a way to connect with people in new ways.

We are at this weird moment where there's an economic model that supports creativity. People are demanding something new and fresh.

I am always driven by the terror of humiliation.

Every joke is an experiment. When you sit, alone, and write a script, or just a joke, you really have no idea if it will succeed.

I think that everything I do tends to root for the underdog.

The audience doesn't care that most of happened. They just want a good movie.

I don't label myself one way or another. I love who I love; it's the person that matters.

To be honest with you, I get a little fed up with actors who act crazy to make themselves more interesting.

Everyone will tell you how rigid I am, but a teacher has to be flexible. You can't cut the student to your cloth; you have to cut yourself to theirs.

I hope President-elect Trump will work with me and with the rest of the Senate to try to keep more jobs here in America.

how hard you worked for what you wanted. how cruelly fate betrayed you in the end.

Because I have success, it doesn't mean I'm part of the mainstream. I'm still an outsider.

People ask if I can get it up in the morning. I tell them are you kidding I'm envious of a stiff wind.

I just think, as a species, what we [people] enjoy most is creation and creativity, and telling stories is an extension of expressing all the thoughts and ideas that we have inside of ourselves.

What we really want to do is buy businesses that we would be happy to own forever.

I try to write three jokes every day. I don't sit down and write them, it's just things that pop into my head. Then I'll go watch it fail onstage that night.