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My parents were married my whole life until my father passed away a few years ago.

Willie Nelson is the perfect person, it seems to me, to think about. Because something tells me that he operates on his own frequency.

If someone made fun of me, I'd be bummed out. But I'd play it like I thought it was hilarious.

Fear is what makes comedy funny.

Sometimes I think I'm funny. But then sometimes I see myself, and I think, 'There's somebody trying to be funny.'

I have trouble with long-term things. I tend to get obsessed with stuff and then move on. Roles, songs, video games. That's why I was afraid of marriage. Because it was like a lifelong game of 'Madden.'

I love straight guys that seem gay. I'm a little like that.

I wasn't one of those kids who was like, 'I want to be an actor.' It wasn't in my wheelhouse at all. I wasn't from a family that did this or in a place where people did this.

I'm not good at small talk. I'm really not. I'm not that great at any talk.

When I was in my early twenties, I used to grow all sorts of very weird beards. All of them awful in retrospect. I had Civil War beards for a while, then Mennonite beards.

Growing up, I was certainly drawn to comedy, but my goal was just to be as well-rounded an actor as possible. I really liked Daniel Day-Lewis, and I thought, 'Oh, he's a good guy to try and emulate.'

I treasure laughs more than anything; they've helped me in life the most.

There's a lot of people I would be more than a little overwhelmed by and thrilled to work with.

Tea has always been a big thing in my life. And I'm not talking about Liptons with lemon or iced tea, or any of that nonsense. Has to be hot PG Tips with milk.

I was always in new schools and had British parents, which was not the norm, and I think there was also... I'm not particularly religious, but I was born Jewish, and I always felt like the outsider because I wasn't Christian or Catholic.

There is something about growing up in the Midwest that gives a different kind of sensibility. But if I'm feeling insecure, the smiles and politeness get upped a notch, and maybe that isn't totally reflective of how I'm feeling on the inside.

Anybody that's going on a road trip and doesn't really want to get into a myriad of snacks is probably no one you want to get in the car with.

I've hitchhiked - it is 'hitchhiked,' and not 'hitchedhike' like 'passersby,' right? - a couple of times, but only in emergency situations, and that's really the time that it's okay to hitchhike.

I think there's something kind of good about growing up in a place you know is not the cool place to be. I think it's good for your head.

I really tried for a while to go with the Adam Ant look.

Puberty hit me pretty hard. All of a sudden, I woke up, and I had really curly hair.

'Anchorman' was never supposed to be a popular, like, hit movie. That movie was a cheap movie - it felt like we were working on a weird independent comedy in a way.

I know a lot about the Titanic. My dad was a Titanic expert.

I think most marriages, mine included, you're constantly tending the garden, constantly working at it.

People have all different kinds of marriages. Whatever works for you.

Whatever I'm working on, the character I'm playing tends to slowly bleed into my own real life. Not in any kind of creepy, Method actor-y kind of way - it's just an innate kind of merging.

I laugh much more during takes than I do during real life. Maybe because you're not supposed to. I've ruined many takes because I will lose it.

I've been friends with Elizabeth Banks since 'Wet Hot American Summer.'

I don't have an agenda where I do a comedy and say, 'I have to do a drama next,' or 'I am looking for an action movie now.'

I always try and hold to that saying, 'I want to work on things I'd want to see.' The vast majority, that's been true.

I am so appreciative I have been able to continue not only doing something I love, but working on movies I've loved.

I would say, up until 'Anchorman,' I wasn't any kind of household name or anything, but I wasn't necessarily identified as much with being a comedian.

I'd like to do something dramatic or a different kind of role, but I tend not to separate comedy and drama all that much.

You can make a lot of mistakes with hair because it grows back.

I used to ask my mom to try and shave my head on the sides to give me a receding hairline because Adam Ant had one.

For a while, I tried to masquerade as somewhat of a hippie because I was under the impression that was the kind of guy girls would like. I was pretty unsuccessful because I liked the idea of camping more than actually camping. I did go to a Grateful Dead concert, but I was pretty bored.

In eighth grade, I wore a tie to school every day. I didn't own jeans. But it wasn't a granola thing, it was really more of an INXS thing.

I'm not that nice - it's one of those things that reveals itself over time. You could talk to people who know me well; they could give you a laundry list. Except they probably wouldn't because they're petrified.

I think I used comedy as a mechanism: if I could make the other kids laugh, I wouldn't get beaten up or teased as much.

I do like the idea that tomorrow I might find out that I'm going to be doing something that is completely unknowable today. I think it forces you to live in the moment in a very good way.

While there are so many great things in my life, you get older, and you have responsibilities. And things happen, like my dad dying - things that are tough to shake off. And there are things I'm still trying to figure out.

I'm a huge David Wain fan. He's one of my best friends now, but he just makes me laugh continually, much to the annoyance of his wife.

There's something great about the idea of working the land and living communally. That's healthy. That's good.

Who knows what critics are thinking? I know that you make more of a name for yourself, make more of an interesting review, if you're kind of mean-spirited.

Looking back, I'm really happy with the choices I've made in my career. I know for a fact I could be wealthier. Who knows, maybe I could be more successful, maybe not. I don't know. But just about every single thing I've ever done I've gone into with the right intentions, and that goes a long way.

There are so many really good comedians, and I would never be as good as they are. It's not my calling.

A lot of people say, 'What's the worst part about being an actor?' And the worst part is that you're not a musician.

Alex Smith is - I think he is a winner, and he's a smart quarterback, and I'm a fan of his.

I find many of the people that I've worked with to be incredibly funny.

I've always loved David Letterman. There was an irreverence to his show that I remember, especially in 'Late Night' - it always seemed so fresh.

I went to college and studied theater; I went to a theater conservatory. I live in New York because I wanted to do plays and still do plays.

Comedy-wise, I think Chris Elliott is one of the funniest people.

Even more than getting married or having kids, I found losing a parent is what thrusts you into adulthood. For me it was. That was when the Earth tilted on its axis, and there was a paradigm shift, and I felt like a different person.

There is a major part of who I am that does not feel like the alpha male.

I don't feel like a dork, but I certainly have many moments of nerdism, and I embrace it wholeheartedly. I've always cottoned to that crowd more, anyway.

My sister was born a couple years after I was, and I realized that I wasn't getting enough attention, as much attention as I used to before she showed up, and then I learned pretty early on that if I could do a silly dance or make grown-ups laugh, then the attention would come back to me, and I would be accepted.

All I really wanted to be was a working actor.

I'm a big fan of not working.

Anything traumatic in my life I've always dealt with through jokes and comedy.

Embarrassment and awkward situations are not foreign things to me.

I think Ellen DeGeneres is just hysterical.

My wife is very stealth-funny. She'll come out with something when I'm not expecting it, and it'll just kill me.

Growing up, if I had been given any advice - bad or good - I probably wouldn't have been able to act on it regardless. I wasn't shy, but I'd get nervous. I got a little more confident later in high school when I realized I could get girls to pay attention to me by making them laugh.

Amy Poehler, Amy Sedaris - they're both genius.

I was never much into knights and sorcery and that kind of thing. It's not because I was into anything cooler. I certainly wasn't. I played with LEGOs. I played with LEGOs way past when most people played with LEGOs.

Kiss is a super - they are total businessmen. They pride themselves on it.

My bar mitzvah, I went to my nan's, and she made kugel.

Awkwardness is such a gold mine for comedy.

I went through a phase where I thought it was really funny to make pratfalls in very crowded places. I jumped out of a moving car once, for a laugh. That was a mistake.

I can talk about sports and stuff, but I have a season pass for 'Antiques Roadshow' on my TiVo.

Early on, I decided I would see if I could make a career work on my own terms.

I'm surprised that I get to be in the same room with half the people that I'm working with.

I used to live next door to a farm, so every day for awhile, I used to walk over and fed the cows, when I was in school. This was weird because I lived in sort of a subdivision, but this one holdout in our neighborhood in Kansas still had a farm.

'Divorce Court' is a great show.

Personally - and I don't mean to brag - my jokes have been falling flat for most of my life.

I hated 'Top Gun.'

I think there's something great and generic about goldfish. They're everybody's first pet.

There's a very specific thing you can do to get in magazines. I'm much happier to just show up and do the job. I haven't taken the active approach to making myself a star. I haven't been in a blockbuster.

It's insane but it's a great insane.

Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor.

I can, and do, walk the street. No one bothers me or anything, because most people wouldn't know who I am.

I don't consider myself a comedian because I don't really concern myself too much with jokes.

At my core, I'm a Midwesterner.

I'm sure that my wanting to be an actor had to do with a need for approval.

Nothing is ever cut-and-dried. There's anguish behind everything.

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