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

You kind of have to learn how to adapt yourself, and I felt a really powerful way to do that was to make people laugh.

And then you’ll consume them however you can. For example, I don’t really watch Showtime, but I bought ‘Homeland,’ and I’ve been watching every episode on my iPad.

I appear to be normal and have the look of an in-shape man, but if we were to go to a pool party I would go with my shirt on.

That’s what I think is important to remember now and when you hear that slogan, “Make America great again.”

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.

My first inspiration for acting came from the first episode of ‘Hannah Montana.’ That’s when I knew I wanted to be a singer and an actress.

No one came to our neighborhoods with stand-up jobs and showed us there’s a different way. Maybe, had I seen different role models, maybe I’d’ve turned on to that.

I don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.

I came here with the perfect chemist’s perception. The formula they had was perfect and any added ingredient could make it go bad or worse.

I created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’

Dawn came on us like a betrayer; it seemed as though the new sun rose as an ally of our enemies to assist in our destruction.

At least 50 times. I’ve jumped off a building, jumped off a cliff in a car. I’ve been in bedrooms when women came in with knives and guns.

You’ll get back to where you came from.