I purposefully isolate myself from anything that has to do with any press. I don't read any press about myself.

I get very homesick, but otherwise it's a great privilege to get to travel for work.

I don't follow sports that much now, but I was a Phoenix Suns fanatic in the early '90s.

When you do a play, you have the kind of nightly feeling of accomplishment. But you also have the daily dread of the doing it every night. And because you're doing the whole thing every day, it's like climbing up the mountain every single night. With a movie it's like climbing the mountain very slowly, over months of filming.

I like driving; I don't drive since I live in New York. I don't have an opportunity to drive, like, ever.

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.

When you are in a live-action movie, you have so many more options to express yourself. You can use your body and your gestures and facial expressions. When you are doing an animated movie, you really only have your voice.

I'm hardly the most notable person in 'Zombieland.' The other actors in it are way more famous than I am.

In acting class, you're trained to express yourself as much as you can.

The more people say nice things about me, the more I feel it's false.

If you look at the movies that come out, most of them are bad, so it's not as if achieving some level of success means you get offered better roles, because frankly they don't seem to exist.

I know some amazing actors who are not mortified every moment of the day, so my feeling is that maybe you don't have to be a wreck to be good.

When cellphones came out, my girlfriend refused to get one for five years, because she thought it would turn her into somebody who couldn't connect with other people - and, of course, she got a cellphone.

As an actor, you have to be open to doing things where you look stupid, to be experimental.

I hate watching me. I hate watching me. It just makes me feel awful. I think, 'I look stupid from that angle. I wish I didn't let them put that shirt on me.'

I prefer playing characters that are going through turmoil. Most movie characters are just in service to the story.

I have a job that requires me to be in the public eye in the way that makes me extra careful about sharing information.

I meet people who are in movies, and the stuff that they write is terrible, but nobody tells them that because they're famous. So I worry that my stuff might be like that, too.

People think, 'You're an actor, you can afford clothes,' but I just try to take the clothes from the movie, which makes the selecting of film projects that much more difficult, because you try to play characters that might wear something you'd want to wear.

I don't have a Facebook page because I have little interest in hearing myself talk about myself any further than I already do in interviews or putting any more about myself online than there already is.

I find people who want to help other people to be the most interesting. I come from a family of teachers, and my friends are teachers, often times in very difficult school situations.

I don't go to movies, I don't own a television, I don't buy magazines and I try not to receive mail, so I'm not really aware of popular culture.

It's very hard to be a playwright because it's very competitive.

I don't attribute an actor's great success to their own individual performance when it's something as collaborative as a movie.

I have one female fan. But she lives with me. I'm not aware of any others.

I'm no good at really anything that involves motor skills.

I always thought Woody Harrelson is quite a persuasive guy. He's the kind of guy who can call you up in the middle of the night and tell you, 'Let's all go get a donut!' And you're thinking, 'It's the middle of the night,' but somehow you still get up and go get a donut.

Depression, if it's an unconsciously elected experience, is a luxury.

I have an iPad and I watch three things: 'The Daily Show,' '60 Minutes,' and 'Meet the Press.'

Acting forces me to socialise, which is good for me, I think.

Acting is a weird, kind of alienating job because you're in an isolated place. Even if you're working with a lot of other people, you're kind of alienated. Actors say that a lot, and I kind of find that to be true.

I'm not on Page Six, because I don't have anything salacious happening in my life... unfortunately.

I tend to be pessimistic about everything: If things seem to be going good, I'm worried that it's going to end; if things are bad, then I'm worried that it's going to be permanent. It's not a very comfortable attitude to have all the time.

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

I feel very guilty doing magic because you're deceiving somebody.

My job when I'm acting in a movie is very limited to playing a role. I'm not evaluating somebody. I'm only evaluating them insofar as they're interacting with me, but I'm not evaluating their skill set and I don't watch the movies, so I'm not aware of the way they're putting things together.

It's really hard to copy another actor and be successful. In fact, that's usually the reason people are not good, because they're copying something they've seen, but, for some reason with their face and their body, it doesn't work.

You can tell when you watch a movie, usually, what the actors' experience was on the movie, because even the smallest of roles were interesting.

My feeling is... when you show up to a movie set where there's, like, 50 people standing around and months of preparation gone into it, you want to be as prepared as possible, so you should make a million baguettes. That might not actually help in any explicit way, but it'll make you feel more prepared.

It's a struggle for me to watch things I've been in because I'm just distracted and self-critical.

Actors dread working with studios because they dictate what you do in a way that independent movies can't.

The only suggestions I get on my plays is to make them more of what they already are, and that's wonderful.

I see writing and acting as different parts of the same continuum. Writing is better for intense emotion. If you're very angry about something, you shouldn't present it as strongly when you're acting. But if you're really angry and writing about it, that's the best way to get it out and across.

I don't concern myself with thinking ahead to the finished product. I focus more specifically on what the character is experiencing. Once you relieve yourself of the very arbitrary and always punishing pressure of what an audience is expecting you to do, acting becomes a lot more fun and pure.

I always think the second worst thing in the world is to go on stage at night, and the first worst thing in the world is sitting at home at night. For me, it's scarier to not be doing it than doing it.

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

I feel equal parts lucky and scared anytime I get a job.

I felt self-conscious going out in the street prior to ever even being in a movie. That's just me.

The happiest moments for me, creatively, are doing readings of a play around a table where there's no audience.

I write all the time because I'm lonely. When you're acting, you're working every day all day. But then you have long amounts of time off.