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Trying to be a leader in a sort of very atypical workplace like 'Saturday Night Live' forces you to realize that no one wants you to be their leader. If you can help them get their thing on TV or whatever, they want that. But no adult is looking for a role model.

If you want to be a screenwriter, take an acting class to get a sense of what you're asking actors to do. Learning other skills will help you communicate with people and respect what they do.

I got a fan letter on the back of a prison menu. And I remember thinking, 'Well, they get pie. It's not so bad. They get pie on the weekends.' I want to say blueberry and also a Boston cream pie. Not so bad.

I still want Oprah to play my best friend. I want to spend time with Oprah.

If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs.

I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.

Rather than spend my life on data entry and typing, I also take photos on my iPhone of business cards, wine labels, menus, or anything I want to have searchable on-the-run.

I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I've tried to keep the corruption minimal.

Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.

If you take a strong stance and have a clear opinion or statement on any subject online, you're going to polarize people. And without that polarity, there's no discussion. Discussion is what I want, which means that I'm fine with the consequences.

You still have that competitive thing where you want to try to make hits. That won't go away, unless the mayor of show business says my time's up.

Members of the Senate and House, if they want to send troops into war, should be forced to send a family member. That would really make everyone stop and go, 'Ohhh-kaaay.'

Anyone who does anything creative is always gonna want to change.

The funny guy doesn't get the girl until later in life. High school, college, everyone still wants the brooding, dangerous guy you shouldn't have.

Don't ever rope me in as a late-night talk show host. I don't want to be one.

Whether it's acting, directing or writing, I want to be involved in the film industry for the rest of my life.

What twelve year old wouldn't want to play an evil wizard?

People always want to pin yesterday's news on you, as opposed to asking you what you're going to do for the future, what you're doing today.

So just as I want pilots on the planes that I fly, when it comes to monetary policy, I want to think that there is someone with sound judgement at the controls.

As an actor, you're pretty much a hired gun. You are reading other people's words off of a page and doing what they want you to do.

Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.