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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I grew up around the business quite a bit; I saw a little bit of the underbelly of it. "

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

" 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. "

" I think there's a freedom in freeing yourself of the baggage of ability. "

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

" Surprise is a huge element in acting. "

" 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. "

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

" It's not the coolest thing in the world to be walking around humming the Taylor Swift song. It's not as cool to be singing along with the number one song in the country as it is to be the jaded, indifferent hipster who wants to turn you on to something that nobody else is talking about. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I've learned over time that human beings tend to want to do more than they have the courage to do or that the social contract will allow them to do. "

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

" 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. "

" We all have those dreams of going back in time and seeing what it was like when our parents were younger. "