“You’re still trying to figure out what the things are that you are going to talk about, what your angle is going to be and there’s a lot of trial and error.”

I just never gave up and that was the beginning of my career. Just experimenting, trying it out and falling in love with it.

The most difficult thing has definitely been movies. From a comedian’s standpoint, you think being real big is the best thing, but with movies, the screen is huge, you’re big anyway!

50 Cent is a hero to me because he’s overcome so many things. He’s been shot nine times and lived. I had a cousin got shot once in the ankle. Dead.

Also, coming from a TV personality – MTV was all about high energy and selling the hottest video – I had to learn to [take it down]. A lot of characters I’m playing are not necessarily that kind of guy.

She’s the girl that’s playing softball – not worrying about breaking a nail. She’s out there breaking nails and diving at second. And then, she’s going to out-drink you at the bar.

I think it go serious in college when I found out I really enjoyed making people laugh. It makes me happy. I said, I wanna be a comedian, I wanna get good.’ You’re not good in the beginning.

Regarded zoologically, man is today an almost isolated figure in nature. In his cradle, he was less isolated.

At home in Ireland, there’s a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.

I’d be at home watching the games just on a normal TV, watching what I could and trying to figure out what we would be facing a few weeks later.

Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country’s poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again, after so many centuries, of the old bardic prophetic strain.

Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be directed to him too often.

The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.

I write these shows one joke at a time. There’s no continuity. I do try to figure an order to the stories, but there’s not continuity.

I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.