The frustrating part of being a movie actor is waiting in your trailer to do two takes of a scene you've prepared for two months.

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.

Anyone having to do with medicine will have looked at Frank Netter's art work... I decided I would make him my model... getting my degree in medical illustration and then going on to medical school.

Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.

Confession is a sacred rite enhanced by allegory, exaggeration, and lies.

It's okay to be messed up, because there are five other dudes who are just as messed up as you.

I looked at him. "You really need to work on your threats. I can't tell if you're threatening me or inviting me for tea.

I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy.

You know I've had work banned.

The marriage between the fantasy and the Westerns is that thing of, if people think you're the best gunslinger around, they're going to come looking for you.

Unless a person knows how to give order to her thoughts, attention will be attracted to whatever is most problematic at the moment.

I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.