When you take on a role you try to do as much as possible beforehand to get your mind into it. Just to prepare because it's a daunting prospect to go six months or whatever.

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.

It’s embarrassing to tell you this, but it seems to come down mostly to just learning to be kinder.

Everybody's got opinions on the way you're livin', But see, they can't fill your shoes.

Nowadays my brain no longer races compulsively in either elation, grandiosity, or depression. I have been given a quiet place in bright sunshine.

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.

It's unfortunate that the entire country is a racist country.We're living in a country that discriminates, and has certain racist tendencies.

Sometimes in life one experiences an emotion which is so strong that it is difficult to think, or to reason.

I'm just crazy about Tiffany's!

Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.

I play basketball all the time. Me and my band play every week on the road. That's something that I've never really given up since high school.

I get so used to saying what I think people want to hear, I forget they might just want the truth sometimes.