"I had a sense of who I was before I got famous."

"The misconception is that standup comics are always on. I don't know any really funny comics that are annoying and constantly trying to be funny all the time."

"It's painful for me to watch someone who isn't funny. It's horrifying to sit in the back and watch some guy who just totally sucks."

"That's my only goal. Surround myself with funny people, and make sure everyone has a good time and works hard."

"An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination."

"You know, this is - one can imagine how life would be different if one body of Congress was controlled by the other party, there would be subpoena power and there would be all - mechanisms to get to the bottom of all sorts of issues of controversy."

"I like science fiction and physics, things like that. Planets being sucked into black holes, and the various vortexes that create possibility, and what happens on the other side of the black hole. To me it's the microcosmic study of the macrocosmic universe in man, and that's why I'm attracted to it."

"I've always had an active imagination."