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" And I think that at a certain point, after all the time and all the conjecture and everything that had kind of gone on surrounding this show, I think that Mitch just felt like it was time to let it go. It was best for the show. "

" And then we've got Blades of Glory, and we've got Brothers Solomon, and I've got a script in development with this guy Chuck Martin who used to write on Arrested, and, you know, we have a few things in various stages of development. "

" And we... right from moment one, we were always kinda up against the wall a little bit when it came to the future of the show. There were always rumors. "

" Any kind of run-of-the-mill flaws that are easily solved, to me, are boring. Situational flaws, for example. I like flaws that are rooted in a deep distrust in people because of a lack of love. "

" Any time you can build jokes around a story that resonates on an emotional level, it is going to have a big impact. "

" Arrested Development opened a lot of doors for me. "

" As I get older, I'm sort of fascinated with the idea of somebody who could construct an entire persona for themselves - one that was really, in a lot of ways, fundamentally at odds with who they really were as a person. "

" At no point was I like, 'Man, I gotta write me a part where people are going to take me seriously'. "

" Because 'Gob' was a terrible magician, he was always, in great comedic moments, messing up his magic act. We used to have magicians come in to work on these tricks to actually get them wrong. But they still had to work. We had to bring magicians on to make magic not work. "

" Because I think a lot of people felt like, ultimately - and this isn't the first time I've said this, so I'll bore you again with it - but ultimately it was... I think it felt like homework a bit for people. "

" But as a result of that, there was, once the show ended, there was this talk for sort of four, five months about what was going to happen, and if we were going to move to Showtime, and if we were going to be bought by ABC or whatever. "

" But since day one, we've always been kinda up against it. So at the end, it's not surprising that we were kind of led along for so many months and didn't know what the fate of the show was gonna be. It was... in a weird way, just kind of that was the way it's always been. "

" Everything's not black and white. We choose to make bad decisions or not. "

" 'Gob' is a character that I enjoy playing immensely because I have so much freedom to take his dim-wittedness to all sorts of low levels. I find him interesting because when you see real people who are completely self-unaware, it boggles your mind. "

" I am happy because I'm grateful. I choose to be grateful. That gratitude allows me to be happy. "

" I don't aim to make art in a vacuum - you want people to like it. "

" If you have a character that doesn't have anything wrong with him, there's nothing funny about it. The idea of the straight man is very important. But I'd rather it be somebody else, because it's not as fun. "

" I know that my kids are big 'Turtles' fans because there's been this resurgence, especially with the new series on Nickelodeon. "

" I'm a dad first and foremost, then it goes hockey and then work, in that order. "

" I'm a huge Toronto Maple Leafs fan, and the only other teams whose games I go to are the Rangers and the Kings. "

" I mean, I gotta say one of the greatest victories on that show was when we got picked up for the back nine of the first season, and they made it a full order. "

" I'm not necessarily interested in telling the story of people who are super likable. "

" I pretty much choose anything I do in life based on whether or not I can work in my PJs. Certainly one of the perks of doing an animated film is that you don't have to go and get ready and wear wardrobe, and you just show up in whatever you're wearing. "

" I say to my kids all the time - and this is absolutely true - I always say, 'Who's the boss?' and they go, 'You are.' "

" I spent a lot of time quasi-fascinated with characters who were super-dumb and super-cocky. I always liked that combination. "

" I started acting as a teenager, but it wasn't until I moved to New York when I was 20 that I made any kind of commitment. "

" It doesn't look great if you cancel the reigning Best Comedy Program, you know, you're gonna take a hit from a... from sort of a public relations standpoint. "

" I think that when I was in my 20s, I wanted to go after dramatic roles, and I didn't have a tremendous amount of success with that. I kind of backed my way into comedic parts. When you're young, you kind of take yourself seriously, and you think, like, 'People need to see what I can do.' And it's so laughable, especially with actors. "

" It's very rare that people are exactly who they appear to be. "

" Look, I get it; you come home, you work hard, and you turn on your TV... You kind of want to escape a little bit and be taken away by something. Our show required you to pay attention, and if that's not what you wanted to do, then it wasn't going to be for you, and that's OK. "

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