Zach Braff

“I'm hanging out with my New York friends, my Jersey boys, my family and loving every single second of it.”

“Gay men in L.A. are all a bunch of tens looking for an eleven.”

“I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.”

“I have no desire to make money off musicians. I just want to promote them because I want to share music.”

“I'm sure lots of actors and creative people go through this, where you have some weeks where it's all going according to plan and some weeks where you're super frustrated.”

“In fifth grade, we had to write a story and read it in front of the class. When I read mine out, the class were just belly laughing. And I remember being like, 'This is the coolest!' So I want to dedicate my life to trying to make people laugh. I can't imagine doing anything else.”

“I'm putting myself out there in a way I don't know if I ever have before.”

“My mother's a psychologist, my stepfather's a psychologist, my stepmother is a therapist and my dad's a lawyer. So it was all prominent in my life. I don't know anyone who doesn't know someone on some form of prescription medicine.”

“I'm by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I've seen it save a lot of people's lives.”

“I think I suffer from some mild depression.”

“It used to be that you came out of school, and you got married - those who were going to get married. But my peers are getting married in their early 30s, so now there's like this extra 10 years of that angst.”

“I had a very funny family.”

“I love music and I love musicians and when I hear something that's great, I always say it's like you go to a movie and you can't wait to tell your friends about it.”

“I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.”

“In New York, we tip everyone. We tip doormen, we tip cab drivers, and we tip bartenders at the bar. You'll get quite an evil eye if you don't leave a tip at the bar.”

“I am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.”

“I'd always fantasized about writing a new play. Even when I had all this success in television, what I was daydreaming about in my dressing room is that one day I would do it.”

“In theater or movies you see either 'I'm religious' or 'I'm an atheist.' I've never seen too much discussion of 'I believe there's a higher power but I'm hesitant to reach out to him because I don't know if I'm worthy of his attention.'”

“I came when I was in high school as part of a student exchange program with the Jewish Community Center in New Jersey, to Ramat Eliyahu. You come and volunteer for five weeks at a day camp. I was a teenager - I couldn't really appreciate it as much, and now I come back as an adult and I can really get the flavor of the city, and I love it.”

“Ever since I was little it was programmed into me that London is where great theatre occurs and all the big shows you love start there.”