"I think it's always funny when you see kids do Shakespeare."

"I don't think I'm kind of universally known. I think in the indie world I'm probably better known than in some mainstream Hollywood terms."

"I don't like comedy that I think is bad comedy, where people are trying to be sick for the sake of it, where there's no intellectual point behind it. I like stuff that's got an underlying point of view."

"When you see a crowd of people jumping up and down at a pop concert, all gloriously in the moment, I don't think you'll ever see a comedian there. They'll all be standing at the sides, looking at how it all fits together."

"When I see friends from school I think they've all grown old and I've stayed the same."

"Even if I screw up in my personal life, as long as I'm not destroying myself, I just think, "Okay, I screwed up." I'm not Mother Theresa."

"I don't think there's anything outside what comedy can address."

"Big comedy is good, I like things that are big, but good comedy has to be truthful I think and has to reflect some sort of reality."

"The irony is, of course, that many of the values that I was raised with, that I think are very important, that I hold dear, are the result of a religious faith."

"When Americans talks about Europeans, they are thinking Britain and the rest of Europe. When we [ Britains] talk about Europeans, we talk about everywhere else."