A lot of my inspiration comes from the movies and TV, watching other people doing things that I one day hope to have the opportunity to do.

I like to do my research, get in the right mental state for the person I'll be portraying. A lot of time, it's just incorporating a lot of what that person would be into, into my daily routine.

Everyone should have cheat days or days off. You need to balance the unhealthy with the healthy.

Every actor needs someone to take a chance on them.

My girlfriend doesn't think I'm funny at all.

Luckily, I didn't get too beaten up before someone gave me a shot, but there were times when I was living on friends' couches and eating five-dollar subs from Subway almost every meal.

My friends and family definitely helped me with the biggest obstacle in my life, which was just staying in L.A. long enough to really give it a shot.

Just being the first person to bring the character to life is really fun and exciting.

It's nice to be playing a character who's never had a live-action version before.

It's better to leave them wanting more than to be the show where people are like, "Oh, that's still on the air?"

I play hockey in a pickup league. I grew up playing, so it's nice to get on the ice whenever I can.

So, without telling any of my Zen-snob buddies, I liked to pretend everything was the Pure Land, that my life was already perfect as it was.

Life is all about flexibility”.

McCain is the most unifying figure in the Senate. Barack Obama is so far left. Turning to her co-host, Joy Behar, an Obama supporter, she said: Do you want some more Barack Obama Kool-Aid, or what?

Always treat people as ends in themselves, never as means to an end.

Whoever came up with ice fishing must have had the worst marriage on the planet.

who has not experienced, at some time or other, that words had all the relief of tears?

The idea that people should be allowed to decide something about their own fate is just anathema to European elites.

If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.

But there was nothing I could do with the emotion really. It just went away after a while.

Ideas are everywhere, but knowledge is rare.