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I'm from Mt. Clemens, Michigan. It's right outside Detroit. The suburbs. I was always very heavily involved in theater back then. I was always in drama club or forensics. Anything that you could do that had some performing, I was doing it.

I'm just always a bit thrown when, in the immediate aftermath of some event which makes us feel like either God's out to get us or He's not doing His job as well as He can, we all still get together and continue to ask Him for help.

'Constitutional' is just a real pip of a word. Positively rolls off the tongue. In fact, it's downright fun to say. 'Con-stit-too-shun-al.' It's the verbal equivalent of skipping down the street with an ice cream cone in your hand. It's like a semantic bag of Lays potato chips. You simply can't just say it once.

I was brought up in a very religious household and did a lot of praying throughout a big part of my life and always thought of God as being not only a powerful father figure and the ruler of all time and dimension but also as a friend with whom I could chat and ask questions to and get advice from.

At the end of the day, successful box office just means that more people saw what you did and liked it, and that to me is the most important thing. That a lot of people saw it and liked it.

If you're not connected emotionally to a story, then you're dead. You're really just opening the door for people to lose interest and their minds to wander, for them to start picking it apart.

When I went to high school, in the late 1970s, disco was in full swing and anyone who was into it dressed the part. I know I did.

One of the biggest things you have is your reputation and your reputation with knowing what's good and what's not good.

Hey, I'm like the Wayne Gretsky of the entertainment biz - I have other people do my dirty work while I skate around and get to be a nice guy. What can I say? I'm a coward.

The reason most comedies don't win awards is that the filmmakers put the comedy first. This means you have to create a story around the jokes.

Throughout my teens, I just wanted to go somewhere I could wear a Donald Duck pin and no one would care.

We didn't used to be so precious about women in comedy back in the old days.

The hard thing is getting people to come to the theater to see something, no matter if it's good or not.

Man up and add a tux to your wardrobe. Just find one you like and get it well-tailored to your own measurements.

There's nothing worse than the sequel that's a letdown from the first movie.

My wife and I don't have kids and people are down on us about it. But we're just not wired that way, so don't tell me I have to.

My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic.

I was a standup comedian, which is kind of like writing and directing yourself.

I have an inability to enjoy things, but that's why we're in comedy. If we were happy, we wouldn't be funny, I guess.

In my years of acting, the one thing I was never able to do convincingly was to laugh on camera. Fake-laugh.

I always feel in improv that nothing is ever as good once it's repeated.