I snootily say I can't take too many dramatic parts, as it's taking work from actors who aren't funny.
The trick is always to write in pairs because if at least two people find it funny, you've immediately halved the odds of it not being funny.
But I think once the word gets out that the movie is funny - funny is transcendent - it will traverse all demographic barriers if people embrace it as a funny movie.
'White Collar' is a show about the unlikely pairing of an FBI agent and an ex-con solving smart, glamorous, interesting and provocative crimes in a sometimes very funny way.
I was not particularly bright, I wasn't very athletic, I was a little too tall, odd, funny looking, I was just really weird as a kid.
All of the films I'm doing are young, urban, high-concept, funny films. That's the zone where I'd like to play and have fun in.
Of course I believe in aliens. I think it's very egocentric to think that there's nothing else with intelligence in the whole universe.
Oprah is so bright, and her intelligence is so piercing that I don't think anyone who spends a few minutes with her isn't struck by that.
Knowledge is power. You can't begin a career, for that matter even a relationship, unless you know everything there is to know about it.
I'll occasionally go and do an honor like the Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund because it raises money for a very worthy organization.
I think comedy as an art involves the audience as a participant as much as is involves the artist.
The nerdist movement is less about consumers; there is a large contingent that are creative nerdists instead of consumers.
It sounds gross to say that I like myself more. But not everyone likes themselves that much. Especially in the comedy world.
I'm all about the story. If I like the character and I think the story's entertaining, I'll do it.
New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something.
I've proved to myself I can get along in different kinds of parts and different kinds of productions.
I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.
I have to say, though, it's a little strange doing both because Durant is very straight and stern and austere.
Whenever I'm on my computer, I don't type 'lol'. I type 'lqtm' - laugh quietly to myself. It's more honest.
So much of male heterosexual comedy can be steeped in a gay panic. A lot of juvenile comedy is predicated on that.
I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.
