Scott Adsit

“I'm a basket case. Yeah, you know, I put my foot in my mouth more than I speak properly.”

“People just associate me with comedy - not that I mind. I don't mind that at all.”

“I've heard New York actors say Chicago actors intimidate them because apparently we're the real nitty-gritty actors who're in a town where being onstage doesn't necessarily get you anything except your craft.”

“I think most of my tastes were British, as far as comedy went, when I was growing up.”

“I did a bunch of commercial voiceovers in Chicago before I left. For Balducci's pizza, I did a whole series. Actually I was making a good living with voiceover before I left.”

“'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.”

“I enjoy doing physical comedy.”

“I would be onstage all the time if I could.”

“I'm afraid of my mother's paranoia. The more she watches Fox News, the more afraid she gets.”

“You know you're an actor in New York when you're on 'SVU.'”

“I put my foot in my mouth more than I speak properly.”

“Networks like Adult Swim allow artists to be artists and allow their vision to come through without a lot of tinkering. I worked on 'Moral Orel' and 'Mary Shelley's Frankenhole,' and they bothered us very little. They very, very seldom came to us and said 'Change this,' or 'You can't do that,' or 'We'd like to see this.'”

“I might've been witty, but I didn't have a shtick. So, I never considered myself a comedian.”

“The hardest part about improv is getting the audience to relax and enjoy themselves, because most improv is not very good, and the audience is nervous for the performers the whole time. Not that they don't even like the show, but they feel bad for the performers.”

“I came up through Second City, so I'm used to playing 20 characters every night who are very different from each other. I wouldn't want my career to be any different.”

“New York is almost as important as Chicago, improv-wise.”

“New York has surprised me a couple of times. I was a snob about pizza, but I've found one or two places that allow me to forget deep dish for a while.”

“I never planned to be a comedian. I don't consider myself one now.”

“I went to film school at Columbia and did that for a couple years, and really thought I was going to be a filmmaker, and then I kind of drifted over to the acting side after that.”

“'Baymax' is quite different. I think when Don Hall found the title and didn't know it, he researched and saw great potential in the relationship between a boy and a robot.”