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“As corny as it sounds, I'm often pinching myself going, 'What great opportunities and great parts and great people that I've gotten to work with.'”
“I like to eat.”
“There's been a lot of times that I thought I'd never work again; I was really bummed out.”
“When you go to a college for acting, at least the college I went to, it's like everybody just singing and dancing and acting, and they all come together, and everyone's talking about head shots... It just turned me off. I was like, 'What is this? I don't understand this. People are singing in the hallways.'”
“I'm from another time period. E-mailing sometimes, for me, is difficult.”
“I think Aaron Sorkin is like Shakespeare. When you go through it, there is a rhythm and clues all over the place of how it should be played.”
“I've spent so much of my youth trying to change people or change girls and then having it done to me and people wanting me to change.”
“I was so bad in school that acting gave me some kind of identity and gave me a home.”
“When you do a movie, you shoot, and then you go away. A lot of the times you walk about from the movie, you say, 'Oh, I get that scene now... Oh, that whole ending - I wish I could have done another shot.'”
“I would love to close my eyes and see myself with my girlfriend when we're 99 years old and I have a pipe and she's knitting a sweater, and I hope that's the way it goes. I think it's a challenge every day.”
“I honestly think comedy is probably the hardest stuff to do.”
“I don't have much interest in gingerbread houses - except in eating them.”
“I don't know if women gravitate toward me, or I gravitate toward them.”
“That is the fun of being an actor. You play all different kinds of people.”
“You don't get to rehearse much on TV. You are kind of rehearsing on film. Depending on the way you work, that's either a good thing or a bad thing.”
“'The Mindy Project' is really best when you're loose, and we improvise a lot, and that's what's best.”
“I like funny things, but I don't find myself particularly funny.”
“Yeah, I think everybody has the crises of questioning themselves at some point or other in their lives. Is this where I should live? The job I should have? The girl I should be dating? Is this the friend I should have?”
“The truth is really funny. It's uncomfortable sometimes, it's dramatic sometimes, but it's really funny. Life is funny.”
“Well, it's always strange to kiss someone with 10, 20, 40 people around.”