“What’s cool about renting is that you don’t care about your house getting destroyed. So I think that is the number”

” But, in fact, if you do something you like to do and you’re good at it, you’re going to find someone who will like you for that reason.

When you go out with your crew of friends and you get into trouble, at the end of the night when you come home, you’re still the same crew of friends. It’s just the story that you have to tell.

Jealousy is the worst trait in any person.

Listen to your cool, drunk uncle who tells you to lie. Those are the relationships that last.

People want to be friends with someone who likes to have a good time.

It’s really about committing super-hard to whatever you’re trying to create. In essence, I’m just copying my favorite comedic actors, and it’s the people who make me laugh the hardest who commit the hardest.

I come from both a writing background – with ‘Workaholics’ – and I also act in what I’ve written.

If you like standup and decide that it’s overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to get on a TV show.

I’m always thinking, ‘my career is over, I have to move back to Omaha, and work on the railroad, with the rest of my family. So no, I’m never thinking I’ve ‘arrived.’ I think that’s a good way to be.

The thing about singing is that if you’re having fun while doing it then people will have fun watching you do it.

Shakespeare was a smart dude. He was the president of Rome.

In high school I was worried about singing in a choir not being a cool thing, like “I want girls to like me so I don’t want to do something that’s not cool.

“Poor guy or poor girl, get offstage. You’re killing us.” But if you get onstage and you don’t sing that well but you give it your all, people will be like, “Yeah, I’ll chug beer to this!”.

You can shoot a show and have it not air. It’s not real until it’s airing.

That’s another piece of advice: Don’t go to college; follow your dreams. Unless you’re a doctor – then go to college.

A funny thing is that you can’t search me on Twitter because Adam Levine dominates there.

Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.

You know, it’s about getting out there and having a good time. Not about worrying .

Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:

You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.

Prayer is not a matter of getting what we want the most.

Gleaning is getting things that are abandoned. I did not abandon my early pictures, my photos, my early films. It’s just going through my body of work as something I can pick from.

I was just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry.

I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.