Nothing is harder than working with an actor who doesn't take it seriously or show up in the same way that you are.

The first rule of Zombieland: Cardio. When the zombie outbreak first hit, the first to go, for obvious reasons ... were the fatties.

I had great difficulty in school interacting with others, and I took refuge in the contrived setting of play acting, which is what I still do.

I grew up in a secular suburban Jewish household where we only observed the religion on very specific times like a funeral or a Bar Mitzvah.

Every character I play has to be the hero of his own story, the way we're all heroes of our own lives.

I have an iPad and I watch three things: 'The Daily Show,' '60 Minutes,' and 'Meet the Press.'

No compliment is ever sufficient and every insult, of course, is true.

I have one female fan. But she lives with me. I'm not aware of any others.

Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept.

The happiest moments for me, creatively, are doing readings of a play around a table where there's no audience.

People ask me what my hobbies are in interviews, and I always say biking. But all I bike for is to get to rehearsal more quickly.

Our nation is ripe with a multitude of successful people, who have achieved much for themselves with little impact on anyone else

Don't mind her. She keeps her nose so high in the air, she's liable to drown in a good rainstorm.

The hopeless hope is one of the early harbingers of spring, bespeaking an innocent belief that the world might right its wrongs and reverse its curses simply because the trees are coming into leaf.

Somehow when we no longer feel in control we become available to deeper aliveness.

Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

Persistence in prayer for someone whom we don't like, however much it goes against the grain to begin with, brings about a remarkable change in attitude.

He who never ventures beyond actuality will never win the prize of truth.

Never insult a writer. You may find yourself immortalized in ways you may not appreciate.

At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails.

I had to get back to work... NBC has me under contract; the baby and I only have a verbal agreement.