I've never been a shirt-off, pants-off kind of comedy guy.

Being polite and grateful will make people more inclined to help you. And if people are willing to help you, you may accidentally get something you want.

That's what I love about sketch comedy: a sketch is five minutes, then it goes dark, and there's the potential for something else.

A mustache really defines your face. My dad had a mustache when I was growing up, and I can still remember when he shaved it, he looked like a completely different person.

Each experience I go through - marriage, my public life, my personal life - I'm learning as I go.

It's the journey, not the destination. I truly believe that.

I always took pictures, but about five or six years ago, I started taking more behind the scenes at SNL, and now I have some 60,000 photos sitting on my laptop.

It's fun to play the type of people you dislike.

I am now The Establishment. There's nothing I can do about it.

I'd love to do a drama.

People are getting cynical about the news. It doesn't seem like there's one place to watch where you get the straight dope. You watch the channel that proves your point.

There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. . . . But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope and that was him.

Every book is unique and it depends what you think, not others.

You cannot carry your past without dropping your future.

Every birthday is a gift. Every day is a gift.

Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins the character he is so industrious to advance by it.

Being in front of a live audience again. I get that in my concerts but there's nothing like being on Broadway.

Was it possible in any relationship to not disappoint, to do anything more than only briefly rekindle the initial fatal illusion?

Do the obvious, you won't forget it. Do the obvious, you won't regret it. Obvious, obvious, obvious.

William Blake really is important, my cornerstone. Nobody ever told me before he did that childhood was such a damned serious business.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided