Who walks around proud of things they've done? That's an obnoxious quality.

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 dawn of space travel is the dawn of woman.

I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence.

The only thing that can create discord between friends is money and women.

You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.

Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.

Even if you can't prevent another's sorrow, caring will lessen it.

One of the things I noticed when I worked at Vibe was that backstage at a fashion show, they always referred to the black models as "black girls." I thought, "They never say 'white girls.'

In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.

It may be that we cease; we cannot tell. Even if we cease, life is a miracle.

Linguistics is very much a science. It's a human science, one of the human sciences. And it's one of the more interesting human sciences.