I really don't know what makes a comedian. I think it's a family background and environment. Yet if you put the same ingredients in another person he may never utter a funny line.

Funny is funny is funny.

If you think something's funny go with that. Most comedians pull jokes from a place of honesty.

So what I do now is to pre-empt that by making the up into a virtue and telling funny stories about how crap I am before people have a chance to notice it for themselves and think maybe I haven't realised.

It's funny how most activists are pacifists.

I think a lot of times on TV we see caricatures - that's what's funny.

I've been to many funerals of funny people and they're some of the funniest days you'll ever have because the emotions run high.

Twitter to me works if you're funny. Twitter doesn't work as a promotional tool unless you do it very very very occasionally.

I don't want to be the one to break it to you but the future ain't that funny.

'Funny People' is my favorite performance of myself to date. Even though it's a comedy and there are serious moments I really felt like Leo felt like a real person. It didn't feel like I was playing myself. Whether it's a comedy or drama I just try to make it as realistic as possible.