As an actor, you have to be open to doing things where you look stupid, to be experimental.

The first rule of Zombieland: Cardio. When the zombie outbreak first hit, the first to go, for obvious reasons ... were the fatties.

I had great difficulty in school interacting with others, and I took refuge in the contrived setting of play acting, which is what I still do.

I grew up in a secular suburban Jewish household where we only observed the religion on very specific times like a funeral or a Bar Mitzvah.

Every character I play has to be the hero of his own story, the way we're all heroes of our own lives.

I have an iPad and I watch three things: 'The Daily Show,' '60 Minutes,' and 'Meet the Press.'

No compliment is ever sufficient and every insult, of course, is true.

I have one female fan. But she lives with me. I'm not aware of any others.

Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept.

The happiest moments for me, creatively, are doing readings of a play around a table where there's no audience.

People ask me what my hobbies are in interviews, and I always say biking. But all I bike for is to get to rehearsal more quickly.

My concern is not the fact that other people don’t understand where I am coming from, even though Christians are supposed to be doing what I am doing

The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bull pen.

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

Find the best writers, pay them to write, and avoid typos at all costs.

There are places in my heart...where no living soul...has...or can ever...trespass.

I'm 45, and I'm still at school, essentially. Even after being assigned to the mission, I had to write a number of exams, with people commenting on my performance.

All of us, each and every one, lives a life that is, in its own right, an epic.

I do not wish to hide my origins, nor do I seek to make it a subject of conversation. I am what I am.

For loving draws us more to things than knowing does, since good is found by going to the thing, whereas the true is found when the thing comes to us.

Billy Tauzin is one of the most interesting people in Washington. He is smart, funny, and interesting.