I was an only child. I did have kind of like a lonely existence. The idea of being a character who is kind of isolated, I can relate to that.

I was only a leading man for a minute; now I'm a character actor.

Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.

I live alone, and it's good. I stick on a video, watch telly. I am a bit lonely sometimes, but I laugh at my own jokes and dance around by myself when I'm making something to eat. I'd like to do a bit more reading maybe. I've tried, but somehow I just can't get into that book thing yet.

With film roles, it just has to be a character either I haven't done before, or a role with somebody really interesting or with an interesting person or group of people.

My character was extremely lonely and I think I carried that feeling through the whole filming experience.