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" Everybody should be normal. Everybody should be nice. I think they go hand in hand, and that to me is the default setting. "

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Self-Confidence

" There's such a freewheeling nature to 'Second City,' and the greatest thing about 'Second City' was having a sophisticated audience night after night who appreciated what it was. They knew it wasn't all going to be great when you improvised, so they were very forgiving that way. "

" Reading a book, watching a movie, going to a play, it's transporting, and very, very exciting. And to be a part of that, creating things with your imagination, whoa. "

" Steve Buscemi is hilarious. He's really, really good with improv. "

" In an enclosed space, a camel's breath can change the atmosphere of the room. Not only just the smell, they literally seem to change the atmospheric pressure. It's so disgusting. It's like they have eight stomachs each more rancid then the next and it just comes out of their mouth. "

" I'll do whatever I can do to remain employed. I'm just not precious about doing comedy or doing drama. I never want to do something in order to prove to other people what I can do. "

" I don't think of myself as funny - I don't fill up a room with my humor... I would fail miserably as a stand-up comedian. "

" I look at improvising as a prolonged game of chess. There's an opening gambit with your pawn in a complex game I have with one character, and lots of side games with other characters, and another game with myself - and in each game you make all these tiny, tiny moves that get you to the endgame. "

" My father is Italian, and I never met my paternal grandparents. The family name was 'Caroselli' and it was changed in the mid '50s. I think they wanted to assimilate, which was pretty common, although I love the name 'Caroselli.' "

" Nothing to me feels as good as laughing incredibly hard. "

" I've thought a lot about success, because it's very strange to me that I've been successful. "

" You're doing your kids a disservice if they do get everything they want because that's not the way life's going to go, and I think kids have to have some reality. "

" When someone is good, but it doesn't seem like their world will collapse if they don't get the part, it's more appealing. It's like dating someone: You don't want someone who's too into you. "

" Don't underestimate your kids. Don't be condescending, because they're children but they're not stupid. "

" They love 3-D. It's fun to watch a movie in 3-D with your children or with a group of children because you see the kids in front of you from time to time reaching up. You see little hands reaching up to grab things that they think are right there. I think it's remarkable and it does obviously, literally, add another dimension to the movie. "

" I joined an improv group in college, which was a lot of fun. After I graduated, I moved to Chicago to try to get into the Second City. "

" I remember my wife wanted me to go see 'Contagion,' and I was like, 'Oh my God, why would I want to see that movie?' I mean, I'll just have nightmares and it will freak me out. It turned out that I really enjoyed it; I thought it was very well done. "

" Your brain, like your tongue, is a muscle. Practicing thinking by yourself really helps develop your brain, which you need throughout your day. I like to practice my thinking in a darkened room, alone. "

" My maternal grandma was a tough, tough lady and a stern woman, who lost her husband young and raised six kids by herself. She lived in a mining community in Upstate New York and ran a boarding house for miners. She took care of an entire family and miners who lived in the house as well. "

" You know, what's funny to one person is not at all to someone else. "

" Divorce is fairly common these days, and I think many times people disregard the emotional impact that divorce has on a couple and a family, because it happens so frequently. "

" What kind of person would have a real craving for gummy worms? "

" It was kind of like they were just giving us a toy to play with, to do whatever we wanted with. "

" Goalies almost never get credit for winning a game, but they always get blamed for losing a game. "

" The best food is in Chicago. There are great restaurants everywhere, from fancy places to burger joints. "

" I've always enjoyed watching characters that aren't aware that they're doing anything funny. And I think that inherently makes them funnier. "

" Oh, I so don't care about the podium at the Oscars. I've stood at the podium at the Oscars and that's close enough. To be a presenter is as close as I need to be. "

" Like most people, I have painful memories of trying to fit in as a child. I wore, said, and did pretty much what everyone else did. "

" Actors and magicians are both performers, and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are. "

" When you do an animated movie - at least the ones that I've been a part of - you never see any of the other actors. It's all done separately with headphones in a voice booth. "