Oddly enough, I have really bad stage fright - getting up in front of people. And I made a living going on live television.

No one knows anything. You're going to make mistakes and you're going to do things that people think are stupid. You can't sit there and go, "I never want to make a mistake."

It's not like you get up on stage and you're immediately a genius. It takes a long time. So, don't be discouraged.

If a guy doesn't like a funny girl, something is wrong with him.

A person being patient with an insane person is my favorite thing in the world.

Comedy is incredibly hard. You have to be loose. You have to be not afraid to fail.

Growing up in Oklahoma, there wasn't much to do. Play sports, do a lot of drugs, or read and watch movies, which is what I did.

Yeah, improvising only really works 100% when you're with somebody.

All the stories have to do with emotion. Emotion is driving everything.

I really enjoyed playing Vinny Vedecci, the Italian talk show host. He was the first character I ever came up with where I gave him a name and a way of dressing.

If you can't forgive yourself, you think you're never going to be able to forgive yourself.

Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.

Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.

Now I check myself in the mirror."Why do women do that?" he asks."What?""Look yourself down like there's some problem needs fixing. You're better than fine.

Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.

Nothing can be more perfect in my world than the imperfection it must match.

Bet you never eat, he says. Bet you drink up the oxygen like it's butter. Bet you can go for days on nothing but thoughts.

Don't mind me. I'm as happy as a cricket here.

The fitter you are, the more energy you have.

For the faithful, our finest hours are sometimes during or just following our darkest hours.

Aaron was one of the few Jewish volunteers in our study, and I felt a certain kinship with him at that level.