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" I used to ask my mom to try and shave my head on the sides to give me a receding hairline because Adam Ant had one. "

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" Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor. "

" I think that I identify with my role in pretty much everything I have tried to do. I try to find something that I can understand about each character's behavior. "

" Sometimes you read a script, and it's like, 'You'll improv, and this is just a blueprint of what the scene could be,' and that's never a good sign. And it's never encouraging as an actor to take that on, really. "

" I laugh much more during takes than I do during real life. Maybe because you're not supposed to. I've ruined many takes because I will lose it. "

" If someone made fun of me, I'd be bummed out. But I'd play it like I thought it was hilarious. "

" I find many of the people that I've worked with to be incredibly funny. "

" Nothing is ever cut-and-dried. There's anguish behind everything. "

" My parents raised me to treat people the way you would want to be treated and to be polite. Sometimes, when I get nervous or insecure, I might overcompensate and might not be totally true to what I am feeling inside. But I get nervous and maybe too smiley and polite. "

" I treasure laughs more than anything; they've helped me in life the most. "

" Early on, I decided I would see if I could make a career work on my own terms. "

" What's weird is that anybody can write anything, and once it goes online, it's permanent. My very first biography on IMDb, which was written by a manager I had at the time, was not true. "

" All I really wanted to be was a working actor. "

" There's something great about the idea of working the land and living communally. That's healthy. That's good. "

" Kiss is a super - they are total businessmen. They pride themselves on it. "

" I think Ellen DeGeneres is just hysterical. "

" I know a lot about the Titanic. My dad was a Titanic expert. "

" It's nice to be in anything that anybody sees or likes. If it's something that has lasted, it's great. "

" Who knows what critics are thinking? I know that you make more of a name for yourself, make more of an interesting review, if you're kind of mean-spirited. "

" 'Anchorman' was never supposed to be a popular, like, hit movie. That movie was a cheap movie - it felt like we were working on a weird independent comedy in a way. "

" My bar mitzvah, I went to my nan's, and she made kugel. "

" 'Ant-Man' was a genre, I guess, that I hadn't really tackled before. "

" I was never much into knights and sorcery and that kind of thing. It's not because I was into anything cooler. I certainly wasn't. I played with LEGOs. I played with LEGOs way past when most people played with LEGOs. "

" Personally - and I don't mean to brag - my jokes have been falling flat for most of my life. "

" Sometimes I think I'm funny. But then sometimes I see myself, and I think, 'There's somebody trying to be funny.' "

" Amy Poehler, Amy Sedaris - they're both genius. "

" I'm not actively seeking stardom. I just go to auditions, and I knock on wood. "

" I think I used comedy as a mechanism: if I could make the other kids laugh, I wouldn't get beaten up or teased as much. "

" Why would anyone be an actor if he or she weren't insecure? That's why anybody pursues this kind of work. "

" I have trouble with long-term things. I tend to get obsessed with stuff and then move on. Roles, songs, video games. That's why I was afraid of marriage. Because it was like a lifelong game of 'Madden.' "

" I always try and hold to that saying, 'I want to work on things I'd want to see.' The vast majority, that's been true. "