I've been pretty career-focused since moving to New York.

My mother was predominately a stay-at-home Mom.

Always my fallback is - I'm gonna move to a poor town and open a scone shop.

Always my fallback is - I'm gonna move to a poor town and open a scone shop... Sometimes after some bad auditions I think, you know what - time to open that scone shop! Let's start baking.

Luckily for me I have a very supportive family and a loving group of friends.

My only goal is to make the crew laugh, basically. It's the only litmus I have to know, is this good or not?

I've certainly played those leading man or male juvenile roles, where you're not supposed to make people laugh.

I am mildly addicted to Mucinex-D. I feel like I should just come clean about that.

I figure, oftentimes the best way in is through humor, and you can deal with serious situations a lot easier, or at least bring up the conversation.

At a very early age I knew I wanted to be an actor and then more specifically that I wanted to be on Broadway and be in musicals.

I live in the East Village, and occasionally people will recognize me there. When I'm in Williamsburg, I always get recognized. Midtown, not so much.

Maybe family were the people who came looking for you when you were lost.

Consider and then act, don't react. A worthy opponent will calculate his move to entice a response from you. Make your own play.

Reason respects the differences and imagination the similitudes of things.

People's genes can say a great deal about their health. There are genes that reveal an increased likelihood of getting cancer, heart disease or Alzheimer's.

They want to let the audience figure things out and let the reaction shot get the laugh.

Filmmaking is always about keeping the right distance, and it's always a struggle. You struggle for more access. It's a little bit of a seduction process, trying to get more access.

Perhaps I’m not a nice person, but no one’s perfect.

One should never learn from one's mistakes. Making the same mistakes, over and over again, is a source of unremitting pleasure.

As long as I'm sitting in the chair, there's not going to be any Jew appointed to that court. No Jew can be right on the criminal-law issue.

Every time someone ends a prayer in the Western world they say Amen - that is the name of an Egyptian god associated with completion. So we're still praying to their gods.