I gained twenty pounds [during pregnancy of my wife].
You ought to be able to wear your character like a Lycra bodysuit.
I really enjoy just being an actor. It's fun to be surprised by someone else's writing and to collaborate in creating a character and to leave all the hard decision-making to some other room full of suckers!
I prefer not to wink out from behind the character as myself, saying to the audience, "It's just me here, right, guys?" Peter Sellers is my model, and he didn't do that - he wore his character from head to toe.
There's a way of doing comedy that feels true to the person doing it, that doesn't feel like clown-work or silly faces and antics, but that feels real - like you're playing a real person who has real thoughts and feelings, and it's very grounded. I started to watch all comedy through that prism.
If there's one big thing you can take from Amy Poehler as a performer, it's committing, full on.
I like it when shows end intentionally, and Review, especially, has such a long form narrative that it feels like you need to give it a thoughtfully constructed finale.
The point was living with grace, decency, and attention to the world, and breaking free of the artificial constructs in your own life.
The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.
The question is not so much whether there is life on Mars as whether it will continue to be possible to live on Earth
It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so. I admire you, beloved, for the trap you've set. It's like a final chapter no one reads because the plot is over.