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" I am fairly physically aware and agile, and I imbue that into the characters I play. "

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" Working with the Coens was a dream come true. "

" I would say Mick Jagger plus Mr. Furley equals Howard Wolowitz. "

" I might love dancing more than I should admit. But not in public. "

" My dad was one of the original members of the Groundlings, and I watched him as an actor have ups and downs, and I watched my mom as a casting director have ups and downs. "

" Well, I think that everybody is kind of a nerd at heart. "

" I think that everybody is kind of a nerd at heart. "

" It's hard to convince your agents and managers to do theater, because it's not as financially rewarding and it takes up a lot of time. "

" Things are loud in a Jewish household. Conversations are up here; they're pitched pretty high. That's just the way we talk. "

" I thought it was going to be a hut in Topanga and Janis Joplin was going to come out, but it's a real doctor... I went to Beverly Hills to meet this midwife; you'd think they'd be in nature. "

" Working is a bonus; working on something you love is a bonus, and getting to do it for a long time is the ultimate. "

" Failing passionately is a success in its own right. "

" I'm deeply insecure. I ask my wife all the time, 'Was that OK? Are people lying?' I'm not as happily oblivious as I'd like. "

" Stephen Frears is brilliant and has made movies that inspired me for my whole life. "

" I certainly think, obviously, rhythm is a huge part of being an actor. It just is unconscious, to a degree, but particularly in comedy, rhythm is pretty essential, and there's probably something more physiological going on. "

" I don't think Hollywood respects multi-camera television. Well, I don't think they disrespect it, but I don't think it gets respect for its artistry. "

" I watched a lot of 'I Love Lucy.' Then I went to college, and I didn't watch TV, really. I don't know: something happened after 'Friends' went off the air. I think something dipped in the whole sitcom world. "

" I'm interested in character and people and motivations and things like that. "

" As an actor, you always want to root for your characters. "

" When you see someone putting themselves out there, particularly when you see someone is failing and failing so passionately, it brings up this bittersweet connection to our mortality. "

" I'm happy to try on as many characters as I can. "

" I really like 'Project Runway.' I know it's reality, so that might be kind of faux pas for me to say. "

" There's something very funny about giving a menial task to a genius and watching him find so much complexity and overanalyse it to such a degree that the waitress from Nebraska working at the Cheesecake Factory has passed them all by. "

" Every time we do anything artistic, the way it's perceived is always going to be different from the way that we had intended it to be because it's subjective. "

" Personally, I'm not into 'Star Trek' or physics or comic books, but I know I might be in the minority. "

" We're going to do a natural birth. At first she was like, 'We should do it at home,' and I said, 'Look, either way, when you go into labor, I will be checking into a hospital... so if you want to come along, come along. "

" Until I was about 16 years old, my dream was to be a musician. I played in rock bands and jazz bands. Then I decided to be an actor and kept the stable career of 'jazz pianist' as my safety net. "

" My mom is a casting director, which is pretty awesome. "