Ben Falcone

“I guess I'm weirder than I thought, particularly as I think about me as a dad.”

“When I was a kid, I was mostly pretty sane. I've gotten more hypochondriacal.”

“I have a couple of really hard, weird laughs every day.”

“I'm an optimist at heart.”

“When I was a kid, we sat around the house. If I got bored, I'd have to figure out something to do.”

“I listen to the Avett Brothers all the time. I find their music interesting and introspective.”

“I think giving yourself permission to be weird is amazing. After all what does it mean to be normal?”

“It's in my wheelhouse to be creepy, as a person.”

“I'm not much of a joke writer.”

“My best parenting advice would be not to take the job too seriously. Teach your kids to be nice, and everything else falls into place.”

“I probably get most of my inspiration through music.”

“It's much more fun, I think, to watch something physical than just heads talking to each other. I like watching people fall down and push each other.”

“Really hard laughs, they've gotta make you live longer or something.”

“If you are trying to be happy and trying to be kind, you've already won.”

“I think 'weird' is an interesting way to say 'unique.' It has a strange connotation, but weird is good. If you embrace your weirdness, you'll be on the way to becoming who you are.”

“The one thing I did know - because I've seen many, many of the road trip movies that everyone thinks about - is that death to a road trip movie happens when you spend too much time in the car.”

“I can safely speak for Melissa when I say both of our plans when we moved to L.A. was probably very similar, which was, 'If I can make any kind of a living doing something I really enjoy, then, hooray.'”

“Dan Aykroyd is a comedy icon and one of my idols of all time, but I also know that he's an incredibly great actor.”

“I like to grill, like a standard guy. I like to grill steaks and fish.”

“Since I was a kid, I've always loved hanging out with females.”