I feel like I'm just starting though. It's weird, because I like feeling like I'm just beginning. I hope I feel that when I'm 75 or 80.

My parents went crazy when they found out that I had gotten the part in 'Conversations With My Father!' I'd never given acting a thought. They were proud of me and very encouraging.

What's great is that because math is such a universal language, really, our fans come in all shapes and sizes, all ages and genders and races and backgrounds and cultures.

So many shows out there dumb-down the country. It's so admirable to be part of a show that wants people to think.

[10 Things I Hate About You] was the most fun I ever had making a movie. Everyone got along really, really well from day one. It was like summer camp.

There is only so much I can understand and not screw up.

[Lauren Ambrose's] character [in Can't Hardly Wait] feels real and unexaggerated and becomes sort of a heroine archetype. I think that was cool. It wasn't in every one of those comedies.

Me, I look in the mirror and all I see is this Jewish kid from Queens.

Obviously [Can't Hardly Wait] wasn't in American Pie, which was a movie about some teenage boys.

I lost some weight, grew my hair and now every woman in America over 40 wants to date me. It's their daughters I want to convince.

To go to L.A. and be on the Addams Family set? It was beautiful production design and an illustrious set. I'm focused on never losing that sense of privilege. I'm still like, "I'm super lucky."

You'll never understand someone if you can't stop assuming you already know everything about them.

A WORD OF ENCOURAGEMENTStomach-ache can be a curse

When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.

The really important people in TV are not the directors; they're the writers.

What makes America great is peaceful protests and exercising your constitutional rights.

Because of Obama ... dreamers who are American in every way except on paper, no longer live under the shadow of deportation.

I think it's very rare, as an actor, that you get to a script, or an idea of a script, and you go, "Oh, I just have to do that!" It fell into place very quickly.

Information is not power. Power is power. But what turns information into power is action.

When you're really filled with the Holy Ghost it is impossible for those around you not to know it.

What is of the greatest importance in war is extraordinary speed: One cannot afford to neglect opportunity.