I purposefully isolate myself from anything that has to do with any press. I don’t read any press about myself.
If you went to Harvard Medical School, chances are you’ll be a doctor at some place. There’s a career trajectory. Acting, there’s nothing. It’s constantly trying to procure jobs – it’s very disconcerting.
My job when I’m acting in a movie is very limited to playing a role. I’m not evaluating somebody. I’m only evaluating them insofar as they’re interacting with me, but I’m not evaluating their skill set and I don’t watch the movies, so I’m not aware of the way they’re putting things together.
People think, ‘You’re an actor, you can afford clothes,’ but I just try to take the clothes from the movie, which makes the selecting of film projects that much more difficult, because you try to play characters that might wear something you’d want to wear.
When you take on a role, even if the character is somebody that you are dissimilar to, you have to identify with the role and look for an emotional connection even if there is not a biographical one.
I meet people who are in movies, and the stuff that they write is terrible, but nobody tells them that because they’re famous. So I worry that my stuff might be like that, too.
Look, I don’t have a Facebook page because I have little interest in hearing myself talk about myself any further than I already do in interviews or putting any more about myself online than there already is. But if I wasn’t in this position, I’m sure I would use it every day.
I feel equal parts lucky and scared anytime I get a job.
I feel very guilty doing magic because you’re deceiving somebody.
I felt self-conscious going out in the street prior to ever even being in a movie. That’s just me.
I grew up in a secular suburban Jewish household where we only observed the religion on very specific times like a funeral or a Bar Mitzvah.
I grew up in Queens and New Jersey. I started doing children’s theater when I was seven to get out of school because I didn’t fit in.
I had great difficulty in school interacting with others, and I took refuge in the contrived setting of play acting, which is what I still do.
I have a job that requires me to be in the public eye in the way that makes me extra careful about sharing information.
I have an iPad and I watch three things: ‘The Daily Show,’ ‘60 Minutes,’ and ‘Meet the Press.’
I live in New York City, so there’s so much stimulation when you walk outside, it does not require a television in the home.
I write plays instinctively. I don’t like writing movie scripts.
I’m no good at really anything that involves motor skills.
I don’t understand capri pants. They seem like neither here nor there.
I don’t go to movies, I don’t own a television, I don’t buy magazines and I try not to receive mail, so I’m not really aware of popular culture.