"My characters are not meant to be role models. They're meant to be cautionary tales."

"I mean, how can you have a country that is the world's leading exporter of democracy and then say that we can't have a free press?"

"I love playing characters who are completely oblivious to their own absurdity."

"I used to do stand-up, and I'd get the occasional laugh, but I'd never get that full-on, belly-aching laughter that Borat got. It's like a different kind of laugh. It's a laugh of shock, a laugh of di…"

"I think the fundamental difference between the British sense of humor and the American is that the British are looking for irony, and the Americans are looking for sincerity."