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" I got an agent when I needed one, when I had a contract negotiation for the first time. I was doing the Second City E.T.C., and I got invited to audition for the last season, it turns out, of 'In Living Color.' "

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" Every time that you do a play or a show of any kind, really you have this family that you really build something with for a while, and then we all dissipate, but you always have that connection, that eternal kind of intimacy, you'll always have. "

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" A nightmare would be when somebody is trying to be funnier than everyone else. And you've got a group scene or two-person scene, and one person decides, 'I'm the funny in this,' and bulldozes everyone else, and they make sure they're the reason everyone loves the scene. "

" People just associate me with comedy - not that I mind. I don't mind that at all. "

" Networks like Adult Swim allow artists to be artists and allow their vision to come through without a lot of tinkering. I worked on 'Moral Orel' and 'Mary Shelley's Frankenhole,' and they bothered us very little. They very, very seldom came to us and said 'Change this,' or 'You can't do that,' or 'We'd like to see this.' "

" I did a bunch of commercial voiceovers in Chicago before I left. For Balducci's pizza, I did a whole series. Actually I was making a good living with voiceover before I left. "

" Most sitcoms and cartoons, especially, you can rely on, because they go back to square one at the beginning of every episode. "

" I think the longer a sitcom is on the air, by necessity, the dumber the characters have to get: otherwise, they would be learning and growing, and they won't be funny, so they have to get more and more extremely whatever they are. "

" I never planned to be a comedian. I don't consider myself one now. "

" I'm a basket case. Yeah, you know, I put my foot in my mouth more than I speak properly. "

" What crushed my soul was hanging out with bitter, desperate comics backstage. They're a different breed than the bitter yet eager psyches in the wings of an improv theatre. Struggling stand-ups have externalized self-loathing into an art form. They're a hunching, quaking, unshaven lot. "

" I went to film school at Columbia and did that for a couple years and really thought I was going to be a filmmaker, and then I kind of drifted over to the acting side after that. I'd been an actor in high school, and when I got to college, it was all about film. "

" I'm afraid of my mother's paranoia. The more she watches Fox News, the more afraid she gets. "

" Generally, I've found that a heckler in an improv audience is just enjoying the show so much that they want to be in it. "

" I put my foot in my mouth more than I speak properly. "

" I came up through Second City, so I'm used to playing 20 characters every night who are very different from each other. I wouldn't want my career to be any different. "

" Wikipedia gets a lot of things wrong. "

" 'Baymax' is quite different. I think when Don Hall found the title and didn't know it, he researched and saw great potential in the relationship between a boy and a robot. "

" New York is almost as important as Chicago, improv-wise. "

" I feel like I've done Pete Hornberger, and that is a painting I have signed, and I don't need to play that character anymore. So I'll get offers for panicky, pathetic guys, and while it's a great compliment to get them, I feel like I don't need to play that again. "

" I enjoy doing physical comedy. "

" The hardest part about improv is getting the audience to relax and enjoy themselves, because most improv is not very good, and the audience is nervous for the performers the whole time. Not that they don't even like the show, but they feel bad for the performers. "

" I still feel very close to the people I wrote shows with and some of the people I toured with. I feel very close to them, like a family or like college friends who you know and who have seen you at your worst and you spend 14 hours driving a van all piled on top of each other. "

" I would be onstage all the time if I could. "

" My first car was a Buick Skyhawk from, like, '78, I think. I ran that thing into the gutter. It was shaped like an egg; it was cool. "

" I've been doing improv since high school, and I've been getting paid for it since I was 20. "

" The way I was brought up in improv was that any idea you have is not as good as your partner's idea, so if I see someone else initiating at the same time I am, I just defer to them because I assume their idea is going be better. And hopefully, they're doing the same with me. "

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" I never looked at my future as comedy. Even at Second City, I always thought of it as acting. I knew I was going to be an actor, financially, emotionally, egotistically. I still don't think I'm in comedy. "

" I'd been an actor in high school, and when I got to college, it was all about film. "

" I might've been witty, but I didn't have a shtick. So, I never considered myself a comedian. "

" The rules of improvisation apply beautifully to life. Never say no - you have to be interested to be interesting, and your job is to support your partners. "