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" I enjoy spending my spare time with my wife, our cat, and our bird. "

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" Everyone feels at times like they're missing a page or two out of the handbook that tells you how to live your life. "

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

" 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. "

" I generally don't feel the need to do more research than is necessary to play the part for me, to inform me. "

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

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

" My whole life revolved around TV as a kid. I would come home and make sure I finished my homework every night by 8 o'clock, generally so that I could sit down and watch TV from 8 to 10. As a kid, it was 'Family Ties' and 'Roseanne' and 'Growing Pains' and 'Perfect Strangers' and 'Golden Girls.' I mean, I watched everything. "

" There are those moments where you realize that your parents or your heroes are human and are fallible. "

" 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. "

" As actors, we tend to usually have some issues with self-esteem and some need for validation, and it takes awhile for that fear of not having a job to go away. "

" Getting to know where we come from is a really profound way of getting to look at who we are. "

" When I decided I wanted to be an actor in high school, I really went into improv. I took classes at The Groundlings. I studied acting. Did sketch comedy in L.A. "

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

" 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. "

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

" There's a lot of closeted nerds out there. "

" My parents tried to convince me that school won't always be there, but auditions will. I said, 'Really? Are they tearing down NYU?' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I'm married, so I tend not to hit on every girl. "

" 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. "

" Being an accompanist is very selfless in many ways because you're really just trying to elevate the singer and help them shine, ultimately. "

" I have great instincts, like the instincts of a squirrel. You know, like when you're driving and a squirrel stops in the middle of the road. "

" I play piano, and I was really, really obsessive about playing piano in high school. I don't know if that's nerdy, but I definitely locked myself in the room and was playing jazz. I was 14. I guess that's kind of cool, actually. "

" Karate probably gave me an incredibly deep awareness of all the parts of me, my flexibility, and the nimble qualities I'm doing, even if they're unconscious. "

" As a piano player, if 10 is concert level, I'd put myself at a 5 or a 6, but in a completely different genre than classical or opera. In terms of classical and opera, playing accompaniment, I'd say I was a 3. "

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