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" Everyone in my family used to work with some kind of tool in their hands every day. That's what we do. That's what I did before I got into acting. "

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" I started going gray in my early twenties. "

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" I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society. "

" I'm much more low-key than the characters I've played. "

" Having kids has been great for me. I have two beautiful step- kids, as well as my own new daughter. They've really helped me to keep my feet firmly on the ground, and life is good. I feel like I'm the luckiest guy here. "

" I could build and roof a house, though electricity is not my thing. "

" Work to me has become kind of a hobby. I was a part of something that gave me financial independence and the rent is paid. Now it's just about projects that turn me on. "

" Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of the earth is multiform. "

" You can't be funny if you don't have good material. "

" People call me Joey all the time. I take it as a compliment. There's no point in correcting them. But I'm much more even-keeled and subdued and relaxed than Joey Tribbiani. "

" The way I look at it, everything is a trade. You acquire some money, so then you've got no financial burdens, but everyone wants your money and so who can you trust? Or you've got no money and you can trust anyone, but then you've got the worry to pay bills. Which is worse? "

" This whole acting thing was always just for me and was always an absolute shot in the dark. If it didn't pan out, I had my hammer and tool belt, banging nails again tomorrow if I had to. "

" Comedy is just to me, maybe it's a natural knack, if I can see where the joke is in the writing and I can see where the setup is and I can tell this is the way to make it. "

" I have funny bones. If there's ever any kind of tension, I'll always be the one to try and be funny to loosen things up. "

" You basically have a group of four spies who are chosen for a mission they feel for the fact of how competent they are and how their expertise and they're the right one for the job. But ultimately they find out they've been actually chosen for their incompetence. "

" As an actor, the biggest compliment you can get, in my book is for someone to believe that you're the character. "

" I really like the half-hour comedy. I really do. I know people that are in movies all the time and they, you know, they don't see their families as much. And that takes its toll over time. "

" It's funny - nowadays people that are famous get chased by paparazzi. They have this fame, but they don't have the money to hide from it. "

" In comedy, you have to be unafraid to hang from the tree branch naked in the high wind and you have to be absolutely unafraid to look ridiculous and silly. "

" I grew up in Boston, so it's a nice change to be cold after living in California. "

" The phone's not ringing off the hook, but that's ok by me. I feel very fortunate, work to me has become a kind of hobby. "

" The majority of my background is multi-camera format, which is very broad and a very arch perception of reality. Whereas single camera tends to be more truthful and a little more intimate of a medium. "