"When I was in my 30s, I was at the end of a long-term relationship and going through a very hard time. I'd had about 15 different addresses and a series of relationships. I thought, 'It's time to have a look at yourself.'"

"I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy."

"The qualities I am looking for in Miss Right are intelligence and humour."

"You can't be a casual observer of something humorous - you have to engage, you have to find it funny for the relationship between actor and audience to work."

"I'm not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad at home? I'm really kind of stupid at home and more serious in public."

"Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen."

"Jon Stewart hires people that he thinks are funny. That's it. That's the only requirement."

"I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny."