I really like the stuff that is very absurd and very real at the same time. I think Anton Chekhov is the greatest comedy writer of all time. I think ….

I think meditation helps greatly with creativity. If it's a pure expression of yourself no matter what it is or what medium, it's going to shine. It'….

I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded..

I found it very easy to transform into creeps and weirdos and losers and goof-balls, and I'm happy to play eccentric kinds of characters, and I have ….

We live in a really sexist culture, that's got to be addressed. And a really homophobic one. And all those things need to be addressed and looked at..

I'm a much better listener when I'm acting than I am as a person in real life because you learn as an actor that listening is so important. You have ….

The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get….

I was raised to think about philosophy and religious thought and the soul and the spirit of humankind in a different way, also really socially progre….

A guy may wear a suit and have a high-paying job and appear very mature, but essentially, he's a 14-year-old boy..

My body has been making women laugh for the last 20 years and I'm happy to continue to oblige..

This is one doodle that can't be un-did, Homeskillet..

I think that actors are terrible communicators as people by and large. I think our tendency is to kind of be self-centered and tune people out and ju….

Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we're here: We're here to suffer. I believe in a ….

When I grew up in Seattle, by the way, in the 70's, it was a fishing village. There were loggers and fishers and my dad had a sewer company and it wa….

People are flawed. I like peaking into their flaws. The way to humanize them is not to play them in any general way, but to make them very specific. ….

My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays..

I have an eight-year-old child, and I literally can't wrap my mind around the kind of grief that must be felt when you lose a child..

I think a lot of times when people have "creative blocks" and I know my share of friends do as well if they're at just some stuck point. They're not ….

I would love to see some comedies about loser women..

I grew up watching comedy. It was among all the geeky things that I did..

We've seen that there are a lot of people out there - teenagers in Topeka, housewives in Long Island, millionaire Internet start-up moguls - that all….