If you’re afraid of everything out there, you quit going out there.
I tend to be pessimistic about everything: If things seem to be going good, I’m worried that it’s going to end; if things are bad, then I’m worried that it’s going to be permanent. It’s not a very comfortable attitude to have all the time.
I don’t follow sports that much now, but I was a Phoenix Suns fanatic in the early ’90s.
The only way to be turned off to being famous is to be famous.
I’m hardly the most notable person in ‘Zombieland.’ The other actors in it are way more famous than I am.
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.
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.
Depression, if it’s an unconsciously elected experience, is a luxury.
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.
I get very homesick, but otherwise it’s a great privilege to get to travel for work.