To me the ambiguity is, maybe our perception of ourselves is always going to be different than somebody else's perception. There will always be that disparity.

It's always nice when someone says that they don't realize it's me on screen, but it would be strange to enter a one story while thinking of another character I do, which is completely different.

What I wanted to do was music, until I was about 16. But it was jazz and rock, never classical music.

Well, I think that everybody is kind of a nerd at heart.

Generally people are nice, but it's so weird that it has made me more cautious. Just like anyone else, I like looking around at my environment, but now as I walk down the street I tend to look down.

It's not really about confidence. It's just something that isn't really in the vocabulary of what goes on at work. The writers write and the actors act.

I was like, I can't believe I get to be in a scene with Meryl Streep [in Florence Foster Jenkins]! And then I was like, but why do I have to play Chopin? It's already going to be intimidating.

That is what's disconcerting about working on the show, you can't seem to get an instinct about what works and what doesn't. It happens a lot, and in different ways.

There's also these moments when you're like, oh, I really want to do different things. Not instead of this show [The Big Bang Theory]. It's just a hunger to do something else, too.

Im married, so I tend not to hit on every girl.

Meryl Streep is so brilliant is because she is so human, and aware as a performer.

You have the grace to manifest good deeds:

It's not like you can just stop loving someone overnight

I'm perfect in being imperfect...

Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.

I have a vision of India: an India free of hunger and fear, an India free of illiteracy and want.

A diet should be named after what you do eat, not what you don't eat.

I like radio because you can do an hour-long interview and then three days later have a finished piece.

People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves.

Theology is the logic of the Devil.

We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.