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" Acting is just playing the violin in an orchestra. Directing is being the conductor. "
Acting
Playing
Violin
" And I've always loved commercials. I like working out how to organically weave a brand's message into the writing process. It's like an improv show, where comics ask the audience to throw out a word and a skit is built around it. "
Writing
Brand
Audience
" A straight factor is important in any comedy, because you need something to tee it up and also to ground it. "
You
Important
Ground
" By definition, gay is smart. I see plenty of macho heterosexual idiots, but nine times out of 10 you can have a great conversation if you find a gay guy. "
Gay
Conversation
You
" I became an adult before I had a kid, which I highly recommend. I just like to throw her around. She's a really good snuggler, and she likes to give kisses and hugs. "
Her
She
Good
" I don't have anything to fix! I don't smoke, I don't drink, and I don't eat carbs. My life is just great now. Normal. Vanilla. "
Smoke
Drink
Great
" I don't worry about people misinterpreting my kindness for weakness. "
Weakness
About
Kindness
" I enjoy editing when I'm directing, but when someone else is directing, that's their film to cut. "
Editing
Film
Someone
" If I'm enjoying something, I'd like to be able to just have it all. Frankly, that's the way I'm approaching my career now. I'm a total workaholic. "
Now
Just
Career
" If you're stumbling out of a bar, and people tweet about it, well, don't be dumb. If you're going to get falling-down drunk, stay at home - which I did a lot of. "
Stay
You
Home
" I looked around at the relationships that were the longest in my life, and they were the ones I had with my friends. I thought, 'If I only wanted to get married once, I should probably marry a friend.' "
My Life
Life
Friends
" I love a massage. I'd go every day if I could. I don't need to be wrapped in herbs like a salmon fillet, but I do love a massage. "
Salmon
Day
Go
" I never looked at fan mail, for some reason. My mother and grandmother handled my mail - although it's not like I was ever in the stratosphere of Kirk Cameron or Scott Baio. "
Never
Reason
Grandmother
" In most professions, if you stay at the office an extra four hours every day, you're gonna impress the boss. You're gonna get that promotion; you're gonna get that raise. You're gonna at least have job security. But with acting, if you're really ambitious and you have a good work ethic and are really good at your job, it might not really matter. "
Work
Boss
Day
" I think the Internet is a huge positive. "
Think
Positive
I Think
" It's not new: In the '70s, Archie Bunker said terrible things on 'All in the Family,' but it was all in Carroll O'Connor's performance. You saw lack of intelligence, and you laughed. "
Family
You
Performance
" Marathons are good training goals. "
Training
Good
Goals
" Not a lot of people get a second chance. And I think for a while there, my name kind of got in my way a bit, based on all of the television I was fortunate enough to do. But after a while, you sort of wear out your welcome in that genre, in that medium. "
Name
People
Chance
" Our kids will never have to remember things, because it's all in pictures. Want to remember your fourth birthday? There'll be video of it on your phone. "
Phone
Remember
Birthday
" Pre-production and post-production is something that I've never been exposed to. I was pleasantly surprised that you could accomplish a lot during pre-production. "
Exposed
You
Accomplish
" Television is much more of a producer's writer's medium, so a lot of the time, when you're directing a television show, they have a color palette on set or a visual style and dynamic that's already been predetermined, and you just kind of have to follow the rules. "
Time
Color
Kind
" The comedy community is very friendly right now. I think that's why you see all the synergy and people doing each other's movies. "
You
Community
Movies
" There's this little recipe that you have to hit pretty well to get somebody to laugh. And it's a combination of the way in which you say something, with the facial expression that you have, married with the body language that you have, etc. "
Language
Say
Way
" When you're playing a supporting character, you don't really have a lot of control of the quality of the film. "
You
Quality
Character
" You can say your lines a million different ways and play your character a million different ways and still hit the common, agreed-upon finish line. "
Say
Finish Line
Character
" You do certain things in your twenties that are just not appropriate in your thirties and certainly not appropriate in your forties. Eventually you even the scales, and it's time to move on and become an adult and start working hard again and going to sleep a little bit earlier. Fortunately, I got a job to facilitate that transition. "
Job
Move On
You
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