“To me all men are boy-men. I don’t know any man that’s actually mature.”
“My high school years were exactly like ‘Superbad.’”
“I am lazy, but for some reason, I am so paranoid that I end up working hard.”
“I’m so good at procrastinating.”
“If you ask most high schoolers who Bruce Lee is, they will say that it someone they sit next to in English class.”
“With me, I probably work a lot more than people assume I do, but people don’t realize how much work goes into writing and producing and making a movie.”
“I’m a complete coward in real life.”
“You don’t have to put dresses in a movie to make girls like it.”
“I think when you do comedy, you play by a different set of rules. No one really wants you to be in that good shape. Being in good shape implies a level of vanity that isn’t necessarily funny.”
“My characters come from a good place.”
“I love cold weather.”
“I don’t make the best movies in the world, but at times, I do feel like I’m adding something to the cinematic community.”
“Life, as I see it, is R-rated.”
“Most people I work with are older than me and the main thing I’ve learnt is that everyone is a dumb as an 18-year-old.”
“I mean, I love Comic-Con.”
“I’m not the most romantic guy, although I do try.”
“I mean, where I come from, ‘communism’ is not a terrible word.”
“As soon as I realized you could be funny as a job, that was the job I wanted.”
“People recognise me and come up to me sometimes, but I’m not like George Clooney.”
“People constantly make pop-culture references. That’s why it’s called popular culture, because people are aware of it and reference it constantly.”
“I’m not really a goal-oriented guy.”
“Luckily, I think, I never really wanted to be famous, I just wanted to make movies.”
“My mom drives me crazy sometimes, but I have a good relationship with her.”
“I honestly don’t love the Cheech and Chong movies, I’ve got to say.”
“You look at CG sometimes and its terrible. You look at CG sometimes and its great.”
“I’m not one of those actors where filmmakers that I admire ask me to be in their movies. I meet them at parties and they’re nice to me, but they never ask me to work with them.”
“I’ll vote for whoever is the Democrat. That’s all I need to know.”
“My mom’s a social worker, and my dad works in non-profit organisations.”
“I grew up in Vancouver, man. That’s where more than half of my style comes from.”
“Really, if I’m honest, sci-fi is where my sensibility instinctively goes – I’m a big comic-book fan.”
“After every single take, I laugh. It’s my own awkwardness and discomfort about being an actor.”
“I didn’t think I’d ever be an actor.”
“I’m proud to say that I’ve never had a normal job. I started doing stand-up when I was in high school, purely as a measure to never get a proper job.”
“I was in high school when Will Ferrell was first on ‘Saturday Night Live’, and I remember thinking, ‘Man, that guy is the funniest guy ever.’”
“The current Babe Ruth of improv? Sacha Baron Cohen. He’s pretty amazing.”
“I guess it’s a kind of a goal for any actor to be the lead of a movie. Not for ego reasons, but because it is creatively the biggest challenge.”
“There is a certain security in having a great supporting cast.”
“It’s my mission to sue the MPAA and take them down. I don’t know how to go about doing that. But to me, it seems like it’s something that has to be taken care of.”
“I’m not entirely comfortable saying I’m an actor, because it seems like a very weird, almost dorky thing to say you are.”
“You don’t often see fight scenes with people who have no idea how to fight.”
“I first did standup at a lesbian bar. I didn’t know it was a lesbian bar at the time, but the lesbians loved me. I was huge among the lesbians and am to this day. I’m thrilled with the lesbian support.”
“I eat well, and I exercise.”
“I don’t weigh myself.”
“It is always exciting when you find someone who is really enthusiastic about being half of a comedy team.”
“Good comedy doesn’t have to be a comedy idea.”
“I feel like if I won an award and I was giving my speech and the music started, that’s all I’d remember, the humiliation I felt when the music started. It would mar the entire experience for me.”
“I remember, when I was an up-and-coming comic, how annoyed I would be when the famous guys would show up and just take everyone’s spots.”
“I’m not the most in-tune guy with what is getting nominated and winning awards in general.”
“Most comedy comes out of misery.”
“The good thing about L.A. is that there’s always someone more famous 100 yards away from me.”
“To me, what separates a funny movie from a good movie is something personal.”
“I’ve seen a lot of movies get made where no one has control. No one likes it.”
“I feel much more comfortable as a writer than an actor. I feel like I am a much better writer than I am an actor.”
“I’m intimidated anytime I work with someone who’s directly outside my very insulated group of friends.”
“I know most people don’t like their jobs very much and don’t get a lot of personal satisfaction from their jobs. That’s something that I really do get a lot of.”
“Marriage can be expensive, and if I lose millions then it’ll be the best millions I’ve spent.”
“A TV show is constant work, which is the great thing about it.”
“Trying to constantly get yourself into movies is extremely stressful and sometimes just impossible.”
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