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It's a lot of fun to play someone you don't normally think of yourself as.

Whenever I play something, everybody just thinks that's who I am.

I play into the perception of me, but it's not really me.

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

I don't know if you know you're funny, but you enjoy being funny. I know I'm funny because people tell me I am, but when I watch myself, it doesn't make me laugh. Does that make sense? Because I know the jokes, and to me, I feel like I'm pulling the wool over people's eyes. And there are probably people who do not enjoy what I do.

With any character I play, I gravitate to the juxtaposition and humor.

As a matter of fact, I rarely ever play myself.

I played a lot of sarcastic, wisecracking characters for a long time, and people would think that was me. And it's very much not me, and then people would think I was being sarcastic when I wasn't: 'Oh, you're making fun of me right now.' And I wasn't!

I guess the more serious you play something, if the context is funny, then it will be funny and it doesn't really require you to be necessarily, explicitly humorous, or silly.

You play to different parts of yourself when you take on various roles. Like, you are your confident self when you're playing this person, and you're your sad self when playing another person - but it's all a part of you somewhere.