“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.”

I am what they call a chubby-skinny guy.

I think it’s pretty classic if you look at the way entertainment reflects the country’s status.

You ever spent eight hours acting in water?

I am open to doing anything.

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.

In a sense, speaking figuratively, to take one’s agency, that precious gift which the scriptures make plain is essential to life itself, and say, “I will do as you direct,” is afterward to learn that in so doing you possess it all the more.

In basketball, you can be the greatest individual player in the world and still lose every game, because a team will always beat an individual.

It will be the people with the greatest love, not the most information, who will influence us to change.

Experience and curiosity drive us to make unexpected, offbeat connections. It is these nonlinear steps that often lead to the greatest work.

If we accept the notion that terrorists will have immunity because as they fire on civilians they hide behind civilians, then this tactic will be legitimized and the terrorists will have their greatest victory.

The greatest comebacks ever – watching [Donald Trump] get the nomination for the Republican Party is the most astounding thing I’ve ever seen.

The ordinary blue pickling cabbage. Set against the blazing blue of the other flowers, it had a bloom and elegance which made it a thing of the greatest delight.

In a period scarcely twice my own lifetime it has risen from nothingness to become the world’s greatest power. It has become the ark of the covenant of freedom.