I get very homesick, but otherwise it’s a great privilege to get to travel for work.
Mother Teresa was asked what was the meaning of life, and she said to help other people, and I thought, ‘What a strange thing to say’ – but maybe it’s the right thing to say.
I am actually going to two therapists right now. I don’t know, I actually feel like therapy has just made me more uncomfortable.
Acting forces me to socialise, which is good for me, I think.
Actors dread working with studios because they dictate what you do in a way that independent movies can’t.
All of my pleasures are guilty, but that’s just the way I’m wired.
As an actor, you have to be open to doing things where you look stupid, to be experimental.
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.
Depression, if it’s an unconsciously elected experience, is a luxury.
I did children’s theater when I was younger, and then when I was about 14 I started doing theater in New York City.
I don’t follow sports that much now, but I was a Phoenix Suns fanatic in the early ’90s.
It’s very hard to be a playwright because it’s very competitive.
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 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.
I always thought Woody Harrelson is quite a persuasive guy. He’s the kind of guy who can call you up in the middle of the night and tell you, ‘Let’s all go get a donut!’ And you’re thinking, ‘It’s the middle of the night,’ but somehow you still get up and go get a donut.
In ‘Zombieland,’ it was such a freewheeling plot it almost didn’t matter what the characters were doing scene to scene as long as there was a consistent banter.
I don’t concern myself with thinking ahead to the finished product. I focus more specifically on what the character is experiencing. Once you relieve yourself of the very arbitrary and always punishing pressure of what an audience is expecting you to do, acting becomes a lot more fun and pure.
I guess the more serious you play something, if the context is funny, then it will be funny and it doesn’t really require you to be necessarily, explicitly humorous, or silly.
I’ve never had tastes of people my own age. All of my friends when I was 15 were in their 40s. I’m not actually mature, just very self-conscious around people my own age because I feel like I’m supposed to act the same way they act and I don’t know how.
I hate watching me. I hate watching me. It just makes me feel awful. I think, ‘I look stupid from that angle. I wish I didn’t let them put that shirt on me.’