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

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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. "

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

" 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. "

" I think working for the audience, for me, is the most fun. It's really a chance for something to work towards. It's where everything kind of comes together, and you have to make it work. You have all these people who are sitting there, wanting to have a good time and wanting to laugh. You really have no choice but to pull it out. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 believe I'll be in the new 'Arrested Development' unless they ask me, in which case, okay! That's how easy I am to get. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "