“I like his optimism. He’s very romantic, sometimes bordering on clinical insanity, but he really wants to meet the right girl. He doesn’t really hide anything, which is nice.” (on his character, Ted Mosby)

“I moved out of my $800 a month sublet. It was actually traumatic. I was, like, ‘I don’t want to leave this place.’ But I bought a beautiful place. So I moved. I had all this time to move in. And I traveled a bit. I did some writing. I kept pretty busy.” (about what he did during the WGA Strike)

“She was on time, she knew her lines. She’s going to be really funny. I mean, I have nothing scandalous to offer.” (about Britney Spears working on How I Met Your Mother)

“I used to think a lot about that and oddly I think about that less and less. I just want to keep doing what I feel called to do. I’d like to write a novel one day. I don’t want to ever stray too far from the theater. It’s where I came from and it’s really the thing I feel like I do best. When I moved out to LA, I made a bargain with myself that I would do a play a year so I could hold on to my soul. I’ve stayed on that schedule so far.” (about what he hope to accomplish over the course of his career)

“I think it tries to balance the funny, traditional sitcom moments with more sincere, romantic moments that aren’t really seen in sitcoms. The guys who created our show don’t seem to be influenced by other sitcoms as much as they are the world of film. The shows really going for something that hasn’t been seen. A traditional sitcom will have five or six scenes in a 22 minutes episode – we have like 40 to 60 scenes. Also, we don’t shoot in front of a live audience, which is rare. It’s a lot more like doing a one hour. But I think it’s good we don’t do it in front of an audience. I think it keeps us playing to each other and keeps us honest.” (about the structure and concepts of How I Met Your Mother)

“There are no actors in my family or even in my town. I just started acting in high school and it immediately felt like something I never wanted to stop doing. I got bit by the bug. It’s the classic tale. They were, but in a very measured way at first. They didn’t want me to go to an acting conservatory. They wanted me to get a liberal arts degree in college, which I did, but I ended up being a drama major. Right after college I went to NYU to get my M.F.A. in acting. Then I just started working right after that.”

“I’m worried I won’t read any books, though sometimes, I think I should watch just to give my brain a rest.” (about the fact that he doesn’t get CBS on his only TV and he doesn’t watch any TV)

“Jason Segel, who plays Marshall, is a great singer-songwriter. That’s pretty cool, right? There’s an episode where he sang half his dialogue and that was all his stuff. We still sing those songs, because they were actually pretty catchy.” (about what people don’t know about one of his cast mates)

“He doesn’t have cable, and the TV he does have in his bedroom doesn’t get CBS.” (about what people be surprise to know about him)

“I don’t know if they want me to say it’s an accountant from New Jersey that I meet in season five, or it’s Keira Knightley…”