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" People dream their whole lives of their Oscar speech; I dreamt my whole life of hosting the Oscars. "

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" I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me. "

" You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it. "

" It's much better to wreak havoc on a show and be a maniac than promote myself. Plugs and anecdotes aren't really in line with my beliefs. Besides, if someone sees me on a morning show and thinks, 'That's not funny; this guy is crazy,' then I don't want them to come to the show anyway. "

" I love mispronunciations. I love when people mispronounce things. "

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" Some people in Silicon Valley are as bad as the 'Koch Brothers', you know? Don't be mistaken. For every some of those, though, you get people who come up with something like 'Leafly', which does what 'Yelp' has done, but in a much more specific way, and it's important because it's the dawn of this new era. "

" I feel like I've forcefully been thrust into the tech world, and I've enjoyed every minute of it. "

" My father really told me, seriously, if you want something, you can have it, but you may have to work harder than anyone else around you. "

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" I don't really know how to act that much. I'm quite good at comedy, but it's mostly acting naturally. "

" Effective satire has to be almost identical to the subject that it is skewering. "

" I don't know that I would host the Golden Globes or the Emmys because I don't think they have the appreciation for irreverence that the Critics Choice does. "

" Slowly but surely, I went through different phases of fame, and each rises you further into isolation and alienation. "

" When you get into a car, and there's trash, or it's dirty, or one of the hubcaps is off, you're like, 'Come on, dude.' Every woman likes the confidence and self-respect that says, 'I get oil changes. I look after my vehicle.' That's what I recommend: Act like you don't care, but take care of your body. "

" I consider myself a fairly ethical individual while I do have a lot of dichotomies within me. We're all victims of our own hypocrisy at times. "

" Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested. "

" I would say that awards are for children. Because children need a tangible representation of their achievement. And as adults, you have to settle for the respect and admiration of your peers. "

" Life is hard. Not great. Kind of tragic. "

" It is good to connect to someone who reminds you that you have some real authenticity. "

" Most things I get hired on, I get hired because I improvise something funny, or they just think I look weird. "

" If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard. "

" I can't stand Snapchat, but that will be extinct before it is relevant. "

" I don't prepare for anything very well. I am not a good actor. I don't read scripts. "

" There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me. "

" I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism. "

" Every time I could possibly be doing stand up, I am. "

" I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy. "

" I do like the idea of being an auteur in the sense of writing and being in your own stuff. "

" To be honest, I would never have imagined myself acting on a sitcom that I didn't write. "