And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward can be slightly cool.

There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care.

It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.

Welcome to a life of insecurity and paralyzing self-doubt.

My best jokes are so cheap. All I do is say things sarcastically.

I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.

I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.

I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.

Well, I guess most people would only know me from The O.C. I did a few episodes of Gilmore Girls before that. I was also a client on a lot of lawyer shows.

I feel like Hollywood is a big high school again. Seriously, Ashton Kutcher is the prom king.

Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough thing and hard to get over.

Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouse buttons, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs.

It is strange people should be so greedy when they are alone in the world!

Every night was improv.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.

I'm an abstract painter not just for myself, but because I really believe in abstraction.

It is a fact that, today, up to seven million people a year are dying from fossil fuel pollution.

We have to frankly break the back of the secular-socialist machine, elect people committed to representing the American people, and then methodically rip the system apart.

When I first got started in the late '70s, early '80s, and first was thinking about the interactive world, I believed so fervently that it was the next big thing, I thought it would happen quickly.

Libraries and museums are the DNA of our culture.

Writing is an adventure.