I think it's a room full of insecure actors, which is ultimately very comforting.

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.

[W]orship, if not the child, is at leastthe brother, of fear.

Just because you will not see the work completed does not mean you are free not to take it up.

The sacred moment!

Thy word O Lord is my great hope.

Equality is treating everyone the same. But equity is taking differences into account, so everyone has a chance to succeed.

[On John Brown:] The poor wretch is hanged, but from his grave a root of bitterness will spring, the fruit of which at no distant day may be disunion and civil war.

Now virtue may not always be its own reward, but in any case it is not usually bought and paid for at market rates.

We can always find creative ways to do things.

The kind of national goal we ought to be thinking about is way beyond national product - it is how do we as a nation help our children be the best kinds of people they could possibly be?

Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as an enlightened person. There is only enlightened activity.