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There's a thin line between to laugh with and to laugh at.

Transforming a line like that makes it into a belly laugh instead of a laugh against us.

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

Doing an accent removes you from yourself and reminds you, every instant, that you're playing a part.

When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right.

When I say something funny, I don't laugh.

I'm one of those people who laughs everything off. If I mess up, I just say, 'Ha! Totally didn't mean to do that.'

If I'm in a serious play, I often think to myself, 'I could make that line funny.'

When you have an entire amphitheatre of people laughing that way, it makes you feel so funny and it frees you to go further than you probably would.

I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.