I went to Julliard and we did a lot of mask work there, and I remember thinking in class, 'When am I ever going to use this?'

I’d consider myself a flailing comedy writer.

Even the greatest actors have had dry spells where they’ve wondered if they were going to work again.

You know, 1% of us is in the armed forces, protecting the other 99, and they’re all volunteers.

Don’t trust somebody that don’t have a troubled period.

The vampire craze is kind of fascinating. We’re interested in the idea of immorality and I think we’re drawn to people or creatures who can give in to those base impulses and just be bad and not feel bad about it.

You never know when you’ll have a bad idea for a worse joke.

You think of George Washington, this man who was larger than life, and in some ways he was. But at the same time, he’s just a person.

The place I feel most at home is when I have health insurance. I really don’t care how I get it, whether it’s on film, or television or waiting tables, you know?

People are still people, and they make their decisions based on their life experiences and their beliefs. You really can’t divorce the two. It’s important to fight against stereotypes and oversimplifications in very complex people.