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 don't follow sports that much now, but I was a Phoenix Suns fanatic in the early '90s.

When you do a play, you have the kind of nightly feeling of accomplishment. But you also have the daily dread of the doing it every night. And because you're doing the whole thing every day, it's like climbing up the mountain every single night. With a movie it's like climbing the mountain very slowly, over months of filming.

Devils don't come from hell beneath us, they come from the sky.

I'm hardly the most notable person in 'Zombieland.' The other actors in it are way more famous than I am.

I think there are probably a lot of actors like me who I think probably struggle to feel comfortable in their own lives, and acting in some ways provides a safe context for them to live out emotions that they possibly repress or live out experiences that they are not afforded by virtue of circumstance.

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.