Sam Richardson

“With Richard Splett, he's like the only character on 'Veep' that has no angle. He's guileless. He also believes in the power of government.”

“At Second City and improvising at iO, you're creating a character in an instant. All of a sudden, you're creating this history and this past for your character, and you're discovering it while you're doing it, and that's part of the fun of it.”

“Performing in Detroit or performing in Chicago, you're on your own turf, but when you tour a show, the audiences change. You're in a completely different space; sensibilities change. I think I learned a lot from doing that - how written material works in different places, learning to have confidence, learning the idea of how to be adaptable.”

“My cousin Dwayne was really the first person who was like, 'You're funny, man!' I was like, 'OK, sure.'”

“I grew up watching 'Ghostbusters.' I loved that movie before I knew it was a comedy! As a kid, I lived between Ghana and Detroit and in Ghana for, like, first and second grade. And I had a VHS tape of that, and I would watch it every day. It's kind of like why I got into comedy.”

“When you grow up with siblings, you can be like, 'Isn't this weird? Isn't this funny? Do we agree on this, or do we disagree?' You have some point of reference, some touchstone. When you grow up an only child, everything is internalized.”

“A record is kind of a piece of art itself, and it's such a tangible experience playing an LP end to end.”

“I want to play my Joker. Not the Joker, but my Joker. Somebody who can have fun doing wrong.”

“On 'Veep,' people are connecting with each other, even if they're making backhanded comments about somebody behind someone else's back.”

“There's no place I love more than Detroit.”

“I would love to carry on with Second City and see where that takes me, but it's always been a dream to work on 'Saturday Night Live' and do films.”

“The nature of improvisation is you don't know what's going to happen.”

“I feel that, a lot of times, Detroiters have an aversion to seeing nice new things come into Detroit. But I'm like, 'What's wrong with that? Everywhere else has it! Why can't we?'”

“It's hard to not act like a fan when you're in these scenes with your heroes, but you can't do that because you respect everybody so much.”

“I really enjoy 'Baskets.' I'm a big fan of 'Archer' and 'Mr. Robot.'”

“I've worked on shows where it's fun; you want to hang out. If you're enjoying it, that's how you take ownership of it. You want to give to be a part of this thing. I feel that's the mood on the set of 'Detroiters.'”

“There are people there who live, work, and have lives. Not everybody who lives in Detroit is a gangsta.”

“What I find funny are peoples' blind spots. That's the funniest thing about anybody - when they just don't realize who they are. What's funny about seeing a hippo do ballet is it thinks it's a swan.”

“I think everybody, from whatever town they're from, knows their hometown commercials.”

“When you consume a half hour or an hour of television, you can talk about what happened as opposed to consuming ten hours of content, and then you don't remember everything you want to talk about.”