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" 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. "

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" I walked into the wrong examination room. I'm bad enough at facial recognition... I saw more that day than I cared to. Fortunately, I didn't recognize her from that angle, whoever it was, and I didn't ask. I'm off to a rocky start on the road to fatherhood, but I got a free view. "

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

" 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. "

" Surprise is a huge element in acting. "

" 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 guess I get really obsessive or passionate about things. "

" When I was young, I believe I met Nicolas Cage. I think I was probably eight, and I remember seeing him at somebody's house - it was an event, and he happened to be there. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm obviously more known for being on television, and that's where most people see me. "

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

" I try to act with my whole body and, for better or worse, this is the face that's attached to it. "

" I love Jerry Lewis. I loved Jim Carrey when I was younger, and Mike Myers and Phil Hartman, all the 'Saturday Night Live' people in the late '80s. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" In America, the first thing people say is, 'What do you do?' "

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

" 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 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. "

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

" I'd say I'm really, really good for a 16-year-old, which is where I peaked. I'm impressive, but not classically trained, not a concert pianist. "

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

" I wouldn't wear turtlenecks. That I'm not envious of. But who knows? I might sneak out a few things and hope and pray that no one says, 'Hey, didn't you wear that when you were playing an enormous geek on TV?' "

" 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. "