My dad’s from there, and I have relatives there, but I don’t think I’ve been to Chicago since I was like 9.
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My kids, they’re always embarrassed when my voice shows up in something.
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When I got to Saturday Night Live, it was a lot like going from pre-school to Harvard, and it took a long time to figure stuff out.
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The idea of a Chicago band that wanted to sing songs about California is really funny. Having never been to California.
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No one knows anything. You’re going to make mistakes and you’re going to do things that people think are stupid. You can’t sit there and go, “I never want to make a mistake.”
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I really enjoyed playing Vinny Vedecci, the Italian talk show host. He was the first character I ever came up with where I gave him a name and a way of dressing.
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Growing up in Oklahoma, there wasn’t much to do. Play sports, do a lot of drugs, or read and watch movies, which is what I did.
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It was nice doing something and hearing someone go, ‘Hey, you’re good at this.’
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The best thing to do is to get out in front of an audience as much as you can, and learn from the experience.
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I remember getting in the elevator for my audition and there was a guy next to me who had a backpack full of props and wigs and things, and I went, ‘Oh, my God, that guy is so prepared,
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A person being patient with an insane person is my favorite thing in the world.
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Yeah, improvising only really works 100% when you’re with somebody.
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Comedy is this weird thing. You have no idea why certain things work and other things don’t work.
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Oddly enough, I have really bad stage fright – getting up in front of people. And I made a living going on live television.
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All the stories have to do with emotion. Emotion is driving everything.
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I would say the biggest difference is that you’re just in a studio by yourself when you’re making an animated movie. You don’t have anybody to play off of.
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