Coming back to New Girl was a real reminder of how lucky I am to be on a popular network TV show.

As an actor, you act in order to make a living. Then, when you can make a living, you start acting because you want to do what you love to do. I need to remind myself of that a lot.

I belong to an improv group, I play cello, I have these phases - fencing, tae kwon do, baseball, ice hockey, boogie boarding in the summer, snowboarding in the winter.

Recess and lunch are the best.

I dont really watch a lot of TV, but I do watch Adventure Time, The Amazing World of Gumball, and Looney Tunes and old classic cartoons.

I really want to meet and work with JJ Abrams. Everyone talks about what a nice director he is, and he has kids and stuff, so he sounds really awesome, not to mention he makes awesome movies.

Video games is a big part of a kids' life. Videos games let you be something that you're not, so does acting, but it puts you in like a real situation type thing or something totally different.

It's hard for me to climb things. That's why I always play Assassin's Creed because it gets me feeling like I can.

I am very big into superheroes.

I hate clowns and I would never do anything getting near a clown, I can't go to the circus.

May I see the beauty in others without denigrating my own.

Don't sound so surprised. I have sensible moments, you know.

A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.

Creative collaboration is awesome.

Convention was our safeguard: could one have stronger?

The sound of a word is at least as important as the meaning.

And sweet and far as from a star, replied a voice which shall not cease, till drowning all the noise of war, it sings the blessed song of peace

You know, the cynicism that is in the politics, it is not for my soul. It makes me - out of me, an extremely bitter, cynical person that I hate to see in the mirror, really.

I love the magic of movies and television, and I always have since I was kid.

Oh yeah, that's the Holy Grail, Pirates of the Caribbean. Johnny Depp, he's the real deal, isn't he? He doesn't get the girl, and he doesn't care.

The obedience of men is to imitate the obedience of angels, and rational beings on earth are to live unto God, as rational beings in heaven live unto Him.