The ideal way to approach a character is to find something in yourself that relates in some way.

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.

The foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

I wanted someone to love who would stay: stay and be there, always.

The movies I made early on may not have been great, but they were all commercially successful.

For me, sleeping is a waste of time. I'm afraid to sleep. It's a form of death.

I never met Mahatma Gandhi, but, I think everyone felt they knew him even if they hadn't met him.

Did you ever know that you're my hero, you're everything I wish I could be. I could fly higher than an eagle with you as the wind beneath my wings.

There are only so many ways to get people to go see stand-up, that it really is about the product; it's not so much about the theme of the show.

You know the bank I used to cry all the way to. I bought it.

I learned a lot about acting from the people I worked with.

I know to argue against our online lives seems like the argument of the grumpy, old Luddite novelist, but I really always try to make the argument from the perspective of personal pleasure.