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

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.

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.

Parenting is the most important responsibility most of us will ever face, and none of us does it perfectly.

Chemicals are available for all classes, poor, average and rich, so far I'm average class and I have the chance and the guds to drink chemical for 1.89$.

There was that word again.Mature. Was this what maturity was? Giving up on the things we wanted because we knew we’d never get them?

I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.

The paramedic whispered in my ear 'God will never leave you or forsake you.'

A work of art comes only from inside a human being.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.

So I may not have had a gothic childhood, but childhood makes its own gothicity.

If you want to be a leader, the first person you have to lead is yourself.

When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.