The more people say nice things about me, the more I feel it's false.

In acting class, you're trained to express yourself as much as you can.

I'm hardly the most notable person in 'Zombieland.' The other actors in it are way more famous than I am.

When you are in a live-action movie, you have so many more options to express yourself. You can use your body and your gestures and facial expressions. When you are doing an animated movie, you really only have your voice.

I had great difficulty in school interacting with others, and I took refuge in the contrived setting of play acting, which is what I still do.

I like driving; I don't drive since I live in New York. I don't have an opportunity to drive, like, ever.

When you do a play, you have the kind of nightly feeling of accomplishment. But you also have the daily dread of the doing it every night. And because you're doing the whole thing every day, it's like climbing up the mountain every single night. With a movie it's like climbing the mountain very slowly, over months of filming.

I don't follow sports that much now, but I was a Phoenix Suns fanatic in the early '90s.

I get very homesick, but otherwise it's a great privilege to get to travel for work.

I purposefully isolate myself from anything that has to do with any press. I don't read any press about myself.

The frustrating part of being a movie actor is waiting in your trailer to do two takes of a scene you've prepared for two months.

Acting is kind of difficult to intellectualize - it's a far more visceral experience. It's really hard to be able to think about and then employ these kind of esoteric notions of this person's backstory and try to weave it in somehow. It's just kind of impossible.

I think it's my nature to - every time I hear about an award or a nomination, it makes me realize how much I must've been losing before, because I was not aware that every major city had these critics' awards.

As an actor, you try to bring as much of yourself to a part to try and create a feeling of authenticity and emotional truth and resonance.

There's something strange about theater. My characters consistently demonize elitism, but of course it's taking place in a theater where only so many people can see it. I've been in silly popcorn movies - the kind of thing that as an actor you might feel embarrassed about - but those movies reach many more people.

People ask me what my hobbies are in interviews, and I always say biking. But all I bike for is to get to rehearsal more quickly.

The joy of acting for me is to be able to experience emotions in a safe environment. You can't scream and cry in the street because everybody will look. If you do it on a movie set, you get applauded.

Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept.

And I'm sure after Facebook it will be the little cameras that we have implanted into the palms of our hands and we'll be debating whether we should get them, and then we'll all get them.

Look, I don't have a Facebook page because I have little interest in hearing myself talk about myself any further than I already do in interviews or putting any more about myself online than there already is. But if I wasn't in this position, I'm sure I would use it every day.

Every character I play has to be the hero of his own story, the way we're all heroes of our own lives.

I write plays, and I have a musical that's starting to get produced now. That's what I would love to do, but it's so hard. The only reason people are reading my plays and musicals is because I'm in movies.

If you're acting, then there's a prescribed way to behave; whereas in life, there's no prescribed way. So acting feels like a comfortable way to get through the day.

I am actually going to two therapists right now. I don't know, I actually feel like therapy has just made me more uncomfortable.