“People, when they come up to me, are like, “Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?” And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.”

I think it’s important that we remind everybody that America was never great in itself. It’s been great in its aspirations.

There’s a common misconception with sketch comedy that you just go up there and wing it, but it’s written, and there really is order.

I also think you can go back and forth between film and television pretty seamlessly.

So for the last two years we’ve been hearing, “Make America great again.” People go, “Well, America was never great.

It was videotaped, and I’m sure Shane Black was watching it from his helicopter or something. And then I got a call the next day that I was going down to shoot it.

Well, you can’t improvise story, which is a fact. If you could, the budget would be insane.

Anytime I audition for something, it’s always a question of whether or not the people I’m auditioning for understand I’m an improviser and I like to do that, and if they like that or if they just want someone who’s going to do what’s written.

At around 19 I realized that I really didn’t have any skills other than making people laugh, so I should probably pursue it full-time.

Anywhere else is a horribly dangerous time for women and minorities.

I think where it’s going is toward what the music industry is like, where channels will be considered more like labels that carry the type of TV show that you like

For me, why would a Jew want to go anywhere in history ever? I’m only going to have to run.

I don’t think in this day and age that, aside from two or three people, there isn’t an actor who can just do one thing.

My parents’ convictions, when it came to discipline, were not very strong.

I love Billy Joel. I cry sometimes when I hear ‘The Stranger.’ ‘You May Be Right’ may be one of the greatest songs ever written.

Eventually I got the call for ‘Iron Man,’ and I read sides that had nothing to do with what I did in the movie, and I performed it once while no one was in the room

America is never great. America is great in what it can be, which is the American dream.

One of the reasons I’ve felt so connected to poetry throughout the years is because it’s the only art form that has breath built into it. And I need that breath now. I need that breath so much. So, yes, it is a refuge for me. Absolutely.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

A lot of the questions that anyone would naturally have about their family, you’ll get much of the answers for, or at least hints to where it will go, in the future.

Poems have always been a place for questions for me. Not answers. And I have a lot of questions these days.

The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.

It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?

Think about the answers of the questions that have not yet been asked! When they are asked, you will have the answers ready!

To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.