My mother was predominately a stay-at-home Mom.

Always my fallback is - I'm gonna move to a poor town and open a scone shop.

Always my fallback is - I'm gonna move to a poor town and open a scone shop... Sometimes after some bad auditions I think, you know what - time to open that scone shop! Let's start baking.

Luckily for me I have a very supportive family and a loving group of friends.

My only goal is to make the crew laugh, basically. It's the only litmus I have to know, is this good or not?

I've certainly played those leading man or male juvenile roles, where you're not supposed to make people laugh.

I am mildly addicted to Mucinex-D. I feel like I should just come clean about that.

I figure, oftentimes the best way in is through humor, and you can deal with serious situations a lot easier, or at least bring up the conversation.

At a very early age I knew I wanted to be an actor and then more specifically that I wanted to be on Broadway and be in musicals.

I live in the East Village, and occasionally people will recognize me there. When I'm in Williamsburg, I always get recognized. Midtown, not so much.

I still can't shake the Nebraska off of me.

I used to believe my art had to be about the things that brought me joy and gave me hope. But I learned that art can be found in all of life, even in pain. --Valentine, while in Italy (pg 267)

Great leaders get people to admit the truth because they know that dreams are buried under the lies they tell themselves, in order to feel okay with giving up.

A free and open Internet is a despot's worst enemy.

I love people who have a good sense of humor, tell a good story, tell a good joke.

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

I am light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy

If we can just try every day to be the best versions of ourselves, we are offering to the world the best addition to society.

My hands look terrible but I can do anything I want to do, so, you know, I just think I'm playing all around with more good taste and not dashing up and down the piano.

Set out on pilgrimage and triumph gloriously over the infidels in the East.

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.