Actor

It's not new: In the '70s, Archie Bunker said terrible things on 'All in the Family,' but it was all in Carroll O'Connor's performance. You saw lack of intelligence, and you laughed.

Ideally, that's what you've got in an acting career is an equal number of dramas and comedies and an equal number of small films and big films.

My family is pretty funny. My mother is British, so she's got a very dry sense of humor. That's where I got that from.

On the whole, a director who make the set a comfortable place to work is really important, whether it's a comedy or drama.

People like Bill Murray are incredible at what they do and are definitely my flavour. Although Will Ferrell, Sacha Baron Cohen and Ricky Gervais are also incredible actors. In their comedy, they make these stupid people feel so real. These guys are really setting the bar very high, and I learn as much from them about acting as I do about comedy.

I'm not that great of an actor, so I can't, like, completely become somebody else.

Our job as actors is to just try to be as accurate and as mindful of what the audience is going through and receiving and processing.

It's very difficult to pretend you're throwing a car.

I really enjoy playing that everyman part because that part is us, the audience. And you need somebody inside a comedy to tether the absurdity to reality.

I'm just going to try to stay employed. That's the tough part in this business.

Tony Hale is a devout Christian and is a complete retard when it comes to swearing. The script called for him to swear for about 30 seconds and he just couldn't do it.

I was very surprised to get a reading for 'Arrested Development' because it really seemed to be the opposite of that which I was known for doing.

People have often asked if I'm gay because I don't go out of my way to spit and scratch and give people attitude.

I guess there's nothing funny about a guy who looks conservative and has it all together, but it's satisfying to see a conservative guy crumbling inside, and I think a lot of American comedy has cottoned on to that.

If I'm enjoying something, I'd like to be able to just have it all. Frankly, that's the way I'm approaching my career now. I'm a total workaholic.

I like to give my daughter some rope and let her make her own decisions.

That straight man character is a short trip between comedy and drama in a project, so I can play the comedic beat on the same page as a dramatic beat. It gives me a lot of freedom as an actor to play scenes in multiple ways because I don't play the clown, nor do I play someone who is particularly maudlin.

I was doing everything that a kid would be doing anyway, but on top of that, I was able to fly to different cities.

If you're stumbling out of a bar, and people tweet about it, well, don't be dumb. If you're going to get falling-down drunk, stay at home - which I did a lot of.

I was never at a place where rehab would have been appropriate.