Acting's not therapy, but it can be therapeutic.

Anytime where you're challenged, physically or mentally, you rise to the occasion in different ways.

Gratuitous fat jokes always hurt, no matter what.

I always had a weight issue since I was a young kid.

I grew up as a really sick kid; I had really bad childhood asthma and was at home all the time in New York.

I have a respect for the 3-D computer-generated action movies, but my first love is stuff like 'Lethal Weapon.'

I know about hip-hop culture, whether it's graffiti writing or DJ-ing or being an MC.

I love '80s movies.

I play a lot of basketball.

I was raised by a single mother.

I'm forever in debt to Nickelodeon. It made me who I am today.

I'm not built for war. I'm built for entertainment. I'm built for jokes - either telling them or being the butt of them.

In life, I'd much rather have people laughing at me than booing me.

Inherently, making a movie is tough because there's so much anticipation when it happens - even if everything goes well.

My favorite actor is Sir Ben Kingsley - nobody is as good as him, in my opinion. I think he's so good as an artist.

Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art.

To me, there's nothing greater than making people laugh.

When you're an actor or any kind of artist, you use your life as something to draw from in every experience.

All the things you can do to prepare for a role that free you, in the moment, are great. You have this muscle memory for things. You don't have to act it as much, once you've done it enough.

I do work too hard sometimes, but my mom is such an inspiration. She tells me to 'chill out' and not take things so seriously. She will say: 'Go and have a massage.'