If you have a dream, just lie about it. Lie your way unto your dreams.
I used humor as survival, as a weapon and as comfort.
My goal and my career is definitely not to be famous. That's a really horrible goal, just to be famous for the sake of having fame.
I knew I wanted to be an actor. I just kept saying, "Until somebody tells me to stop, until I have to go get a real job, and until I'm practically homeless, I'm not gonna get one."
If you become famous and you start making money, then people want to give you things. It's the exact opposite of how it's supposed to be.
Follow what your head is telling you and work hard. That's the big secret.
Without a doubt, Robert Rodriguez is the reason I was drawn to it. The fact that he even knew who I was and then was interested in me for the role was amazing. I am a huge fan of his and it's like a bucket list thing for me to be able to work with him and knowing that Jessica Alba and Jeremy Piven were in it I knew that part was going to be good and as you said, the pedigree of the series was great, so it was really one of those things I couldn't resist.
Joel McHale is so money, he should be printed on money.
I have always survived with comedy, in that I grew up very dyslexic and did not get good grades. I always thought I was dumb, and there are many people out there that would agree
I love performing, and it allows me to be very discerning about what I choose next, thank god.
I think we are as screwed as a culture as we are saved as a culture.
Once you've been booked, people in Hollywood say, 'Oh he must be good.' All the while you're the same actor.
I would like eternal life. I would like to have the power to choose who lives and dies.
I love the challenge of an entire year has gone by and how has that affected the character you're playing.
It's pretty difficult to promote something the week after Christmas and the week before New Year's.
So when Community came up and then the movie roles started happening I was very grateful. I am trying to be careful with the movie roles I select because if you pull the trigger too quickly, like choosing a lead role in a crappy movie then you will be put in movie jail and you will never be heard from again. If it's not a big hit you'll be forgotten pretty fast.
I've always been very opinionated, for lack of a better term, about art. Not to sound too arrogant, but I guess I'm a connoisseur of telling people what I think is good and bad.
Our mantra is that 90 percent of all television is bad, and ten percent has never been better. We make fun of that 90 percent.
You have to have talent. You have to get the audition and then you have to nail the audition.
Bill O'Reilly, Megyn Kelly and Sean Hannity are the Mount Rushmore of keeping old people angry.
I don't think the NFL had the slightest intention of taking me, except as maybe a water boy.
Five-hundred years ago people were saying in manuscripts, "Can you believe these kids today?" They were saying that same phrase everyone says now. No one can believe the youth and what they're doing and how culture is going and how it might fall apart.
There is some stuff on television that is shocking that it's on there, and shocking that it's not being censored. We run to that with torches and pitchforks and go after it. On Flavor Of Love, when a woman took a dump on the stairs, I mean, that's like J.R. being shot on Dallas, or like maybe the last episode of M*A*S*H. It's a milestone on television that's covered with chlamydia.
Before Community started up again for the season, we had the chance to go on a long family vacation where we drove for ten days down the coast. I was like wow, look at these people that I am related to and am actually spending some quality time with! So it was great to be with them, but now my schedule is really difficult so I have to take what I can get.
I didn't have to do too much "research" or acting to play this guy. (laughs) It is actually very difficult to manage all the time. The Community schedule is crushing and it kills me because I don't get to be with my family as much as I'd like.
