I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright.
Pitching. You're pitching yourself constantly which is probably why there are so many plays about sales. I think also it's like life.
I am very good with dialects, but the two that I can't do for some reason are the South African and Australian.
I think New York will always be this incredible international crossroads, and I don't think that will ever change.
I really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood.
I manage to hide in my movies.
I get panic attacks in big crowds.
I am so used to being able to express myself from being an actor. So when people don't understand me, I'm just completely lost.
Every girl I've gone out with has said something to me first.
You should never ask actors about politics.
You watch a hockey game, and the hand-eye coordination and the speed is really miraculous; how those guys track the puck alone, just following it with their eyes.
I'm misrepresented as a scary person. I'm not. It's all about my size and my eyebrows.
I am struggling, though. It’s f-cking hard. So little sleep. It’s 23 hours and 59 minutes of exhaustion. They do one little thing in that last minute that is just so compelling and fascinating that it makes the other 23 hours and 59 minutes worthwhile.
That's one of the benefits of working on big budget films. You work with people who have a lot of experience and you get to learn a lot.
When you're in a place like New York or D.C. you just can't beat it, and it's so hard to recreate because they are both such distinctive places.
It's good to overexpose yourself with work. But don't expose yourself too much with the press.
You know, I have a deep, deep affinity for Dr. Suess.
I didn't think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing and still be somewhat artistic was, god help me, advertising.
Everyone assumes that novelists are smarter and more interesting. They're generally smarter and more interesting, but they're often very short. So it kind of cancels all the smart and interesting stuff out.
Where else do you find great directors? Acting is one of the places.
The funny thing is that I write and I act a lot about being Jewish, but I don't really think about it as a regular person.
I'm a typically lazy person. It is sort of characteristic of actors.
You can think about your career or you can think about your job. I like to think about my job.
Call me communist, but I think that's something that everyone, regardless of their family's income, has a right to, and I was fortunate enough to have a mother who felt that way as well.
If you are going to remake a film, you may as well remake a classic.
