Zach Woods

“Sometimes you'll see people give performances in comedy with an ironic detachment where they'll sort of be remarking on the character from outside of it. They're sort of commenting as they're playing the character. I think it's hard not to do that. I've certainly done that.”

“This is going to sound pretentious, but I like comedy that addresses something I find either worrisome or interesting in my life.”

“I remember seeing the first LEGO movie, almost skeptically. People were like, 'You should really see it!' And I was like, 'A LEGO movie?' And then, I was like, 'This is really good!'”

“I don't like comedy that makes me feel worse about the world than I already felt before I turned it on.”

“I'm a very anxious person, and it's hard for me to be in the moment. Improv demands that you be in the moment.”

“I don't think anyone is hiring me because I look like Chris Hemsworth.”

“I would like to play romantic parts.”

“I think I gravitate towards characters who are slight outsiders.”

“If I'm doing comedy, I try to improvise a lot. Even if they don't use it, it helps me loosen up and figure out the character.”

“Yeah, I played with LEGOs. We had LEGOs, Lincoln Logs, and Playmobil, and they all occupied the same space. I guess that's fairly common. I'm saying this as if it's a bizarre phenomenon that we had a toy chest.”

“I can be such a Little Lord Fauntleroy about what I even audition for.”

“By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.”

“The parts of people that are the most lovable is usually the thing they're least willing to share: the tender, vulnerable side of people that's endearing and magnetic and lovable - that's the part they hide.”

“For the first actual comedy-comedy I did, I took a comedy class in New York, which was full of slightly unhinged people. It was a pretty depressing crowd, very angry and strange people. But then I took a class at the Upright Citizens Brigade, and I loved those people.”

“If you don't allow your aggression or negative feelings to be expressed in your waking life, then it migrates into your subconscious.”

“Just the number of people - 'Silicon Valley''s a relatively small, core cast, whereas 'The Office' was enormous. Also, I feel more of a sense of ownership of 'Silicon Valley' because I've been there from the get-go.”

“'The Office' was such a great first job.”

“Your body - or my body - is just kind of stupid. Like, your body doesn't know whether you're acting something because it's happening or whether you're acting it because it's in the script.”

“When improv is bad, it's excruciating to watch, and to be involved with it is a unique type of torture.”

“Sometimes you read pilots and, understandably, they're doing such a frantic tap dance for approval. I get why - it's such an incredibly competitive market.”