Comedian Quotes

'NewsRadio' was fantastic.

In a lot of ways, it was a huge relief, not being a member of a troupe, being able to make your own decisions and kind of live your own life.

If somebody came up with a really good idea, everyone would back it. Especially when we did the show, we had a real dedication that, if you were in somebody else's scene, everyone worked their hardest to make that scene good.

I think we carry around the idea of being a Kid in the Hall as part of our identity. It's a big part of how we see ourselves now.

I think the Internet's been a tremendous tool in terms of breaking down the power structure of information and entertainment, particularly at a time when so much information and entertainment were in the hands of so few people, with multinationals owning everything.

I still do miss the freedom to play any kind of character I wanted to play.

I never watched 'Harper's Island.'

I met Kevin when I was 19, at a Second City workshop. We were paired up together in the first class I went to. By the end of the class we formed our improv group, and over the next three years we performed leading up to the formation of The Kids in the Hall.

I mean, 'Kids In The Hall' is the reason I have any career at all.

I like the sitcom, as a structure.

I grew up in the suburbs of Toronto, where everything was in a strip mall.

'High Stakes' was a very bad movie that I was cast in as a lead.

Dick Van Dyke spent most of his time setting everybody else up.

David Steinberg was the reason the Smothers Brothers got cancelled.

Canadians still spend so much time discussing what it means to be Canadian.

And I met Paul Simms while I was making 'It's Pat', and he later wound up casting me in 'NewsRadio.'

NBC is working with a team of astrophysicists to create a new day of the week.

When I was on Broadway, people would really just recognize me around the theater. When you're showing up on commercials and posters, the scope of people recognizing you gets a little wider.

When I was a kid, I would make kung fu movies with the kids in the neighborhood, and I would be the guy behind the camera directing everybody, but they were all very silly little shorts and comedy bits.

Well, I think a lot of people just want to be famous.

My brother and I, we were both relatively good-looking guys growing up, but we had our awkward stages, where we were just hard to look at.

My brain doesn't like to be quiet.

In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.

If you're not a beautiful person, you can't do anything about it.

I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.

I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.

I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.

I used to have this fantasy when I was growing up where Princess Leia would be in the slave Leia costume and she would be in a vat of Breyer's ice cream. A recurring dream where I would eat my way to her.

I love theater. I grew up doing theater.

I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.