To Be A Comedian, You Gotta Jokesmith,

I Did 40 Voices For Chris Wedge, The Director Of The First Film, Before Coming Up With The Version We Used. He Was Hard To Please, I Don't Know Why. I Gave Him Really Slow Talking Voices. Then I Thought Perhaps Sid Could Be An Indian Sounding Sloth. To Find Out More About My Character, I Watched Footage Of Sloths. I Discovered That The Food They Store In Their Pouches Rots And Ferments And Half The Time They're Drunk.

My Mom [comes] To See My Shows Because She's So Proud, But I'm Talking About Losing My Virginity, My Ex-wife And Our Sexual Problems, And She's Sitting In The Front Row Smiling. I Just Go, "mom, You Can't Sit In The Front Row, You Can't Smile. You Have To Go Way In The Back And Dress In Black. If I See You It's Like You're Breaking In When I'm Having Sex With My Wife. It's Just Wrong."

I Keep My Kids Out Of The Whole Business Entirely. Allegra And Lucas Are Five And Six And I'm Not Interested In Them Doing Any Acting At All. I Don't Want My Kids In Show Business. I Keep Them As Far Away From My Work As Possible.

With Kids, The Days Are Long, But The Years Are Short.

Voices Come To Me But To Maintain Them Is Hard Work. They Go Away Just As Easily, So I Have To Remember Them And That Takes Work. With Sid, I Needed To Make Sure You Could Understand What He Is Saying, His Enunciation. Sometimes I Couldn't Even Say My Own Name [his Name] In His Voice. It Sounds Like 'shid', It Sounds A Bit Like He Has A Lisp.