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I was always good at being observationally funny - like, contributing something funny to the conversation.

Medical attention is medical attention, whether it's for your elbow or for your teeth or for your brain. And it's important.

I had no desire to get up onstage and tell jokes. I prefer to stand next to really funny people.

When I was a student at Mizzou, I was a daycare teacher. I did it because was a latchkey kid.

My mother and I lived in an apartment complex in a neighborhood. So there was a gaggle of kids. Every day after school, we'd just meet up in a field, and some game would be chosen, Wiffle ball or tag, and you'd play that until the streetlights came on.

If you're the handsome white guy, you tend to get cast as guys who are meant to be convincing in their jobs. What I've been fortunate enough to do, whether it's playing a certified idiot on '30 Rock' or a weirdo in 'Bridesmaids,' is play against that in a lot of ways.

I'm a big dog fan. They're the best. They make life better, although they're hard to deal with. But complications in life are actually what make it fun.

Being someone who people want to photograph, you have to open yourself up to the positive and negative. It is what it is.

Whenever people want to talk about how hard it is to be an actor, I want to go, 'Um, it's hard to be a baby-heart surgeon.'

We live in a world where to admit anything negative about yourself is seen as a weakness, when it's actually a strength. It's not a weak move to say, 'I need help.' In the long run, it's way better, because you have to fix it.

I never wanted to be a Tom Cruise-type of megastar.

Being No. 1 on any call sheet is difficult. Being No. 1 on an episodic, hour-long drama is really hard.

The last thing I wanted to do was play another womanizer or ladies' man or Lothario. I've taken myself out of the running for a lot of those parts, because it's just more of the same.

I think having a private life that you only share with your nearest and dearest is important. Otherwise, who are you?

When you're a kid, you're just not equipped to deal with some of the stuff that life brings you. It's why you have parents. And then, when you don't, there better be somebody who fills in that gap, or you're going to be rudderless for a while.

I always say I make the movies where people go, 'Hey, I never saw it, but when I finally did, I really liked it.' People saw 'Baby Driver,' though. I was pleased with that.

What I do is not curing cancer or rocket science or lead mining - anything tremendously difficult or world changing. I understand where I am in the cosmic order of things, and I'm OK with it.

I have a lady, she's a great lady. I love her a lot, she loves me. We're on the same page. Whenever that day happens when we're not on the same page we'll move forward with it. We're interested in having our lives be our lives right now and not a third person's vis-a-vis marriage and whatever that means.

I realize how talented our hair and wardrobe people are every time I have to get dressed on my own.

I like to laugh and have a good time rather than brood and be sullen.

I was raised by a single mom. I spent most of my time in daycare.