[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.

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.

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."

That's basically what I did every weekend when I was a kid, just go and see two movies per weekend.

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.

In Burma, our main goal in amending the constitution is not to phase out the military from politics. Our main point is to put the constitution in line with international standards and norms.

never forget this moment, the hum of the bee, the saffron threads of the flower, the drawn blinds, nature's assiduousness and human cruelty.

There are zillions of people who say that alcoholism is a disease, but not many of them believe it

I try not to plan that too much.

So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.

His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.

Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.