What the play does discuss is kind of generational strife. My character is third generation American and I think he feels the kind of laziness of assimilation, kunal's character is a new immigrant from Nepal and struggling to make it in an exclusive world of ... privilege that he is not a part of. The play discusses those themes and how my character, in a way, has lost his meaning because he doesn't have to struggle.

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If I get no sleep the night before a show, I feel that performance is the best one.

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I don't watch the movies I've been in. I try to stay as little aware of the final product as possible, because my job doesn't really change.

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I often think if you have time to sit around the house feeling bad for yourself, you have time to tutor a child. I'm guilty of that exact thing. I will spend more time sitting around feeling bad for myself than actually helping somebody.

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In acting class, you're trained to express yourself as much as you can.

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I live in New York City, where, if you're in a movie at a popular independent theater, you think you're king of the world, because you're in a bubble. So there's no way for me to properly conceive of the attention that the movie gets in a way that doesn't make me confused.

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Where I feel something that I had written was misinterpreted in a way that made people feel bad, that is absolutely horrifying to me. I feel so embarrassed and I feel ashamed that I should make people feel bad.

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I feel like when I was 13 and I had to go to bar mitzvahs every weekend. This is the same feeling. You have to put on a suit every weekend to go meet with a bunch of Jews.

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The ideal way to approach a character is to find something in yourself that relates in some way.

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I am actually going to two therapists right now. I don't know, I actually feel like therapy has just made me more uncomfortable.

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I think it's a room full of insecure actors, which is ultimately very comforting.

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The old cliché in theater is, if you’re nervous, pick up a prop, which will immediately take you outside of your mind.

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

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I know some amazing actors who are not mortified every moment of the day, so my feeling is that maybe you don't have to be a wreck to be good.

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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.

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I prefer playing characters that are going through turmoil. Most movie characters are just in service to the story.

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I can't watch myself in interviews. I feel like I look like a wreck. My mom is always calling me and going, 'Stop fidgeting,' and it's like, 'You have no idea what it's like, Mom.'

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I find people who want to help other people to be the most interesting. I come from a family of teachers, and my friends are teachers, often times in very difficult school situations.

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I like driving; I don't drive since I live in New York. I don't have an opportunity to drive, like, ever.

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Who walks around proud of things they've done? That's an obnoxious quality.

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Acting is kind of difficult to intellectualize - it's a far more visceral experience. It's really hard to be able to think about and then employ these kind of esoteric notions of this person's backstory and try to weave it in somehow. It's just kind of impossible.

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