The old cliché in theater is, if you’re nervous, pick up a prop, which will immediately take you outside of your mind.

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.

Sometimes salvation is found in agony.

I saw a monkey walking on a leash and thought it was an ugly foreign child.

Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know's on third...

Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.

Each audience seems to have a life of its own, which is why watching the show regularly is so exciting, because it's always a different experience.

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.

Purity means lack of hatred, jealousy, fear, greed and lust - the absence of anything that can stain consciousness.

It's unnatural and unhealthy for a nation to be engaged in global crusades for some principle or idea while neglecting the needs of its own people.

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it "the way it really was"...It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger.