Quotes from Joshua Malina

For better or worse, I have a lot of vaudeville circus skills that you just can't showcase in Aaron Sorkin's work.

With 'Scandal,' I was there from the beginning. I got to experience the transformation from its initial slow start to the water-cooler hit it became. I have thoroughly enjoyed the ride, and am deeply grateful for it. I can't believe how often people stop me on the street to talk about it.

'Scandal,' I sort of experienced the ascent and the transition from a modest start to a full-blown hit.

I knew I wanted to be an actor, and my mother said, 'Call Aaron Sorkin.' It seemed dubious that I'd make it as an actor by calling Jews I knew, but it worked.

My dad is a very good sounding board. He's very, very smart. Both of my parents are very, very sharp, much smarter than I, I'm happy to acknowledge.

I keep kosher, so I have an element of consumption awareness embedded into my daily life. One of the things the practice does is make one more mindful of - and grateful for - what goes into your body.

You can never entirely rest comfortably with Michael Black or Michael Paynes.

I grew up and I was weaned on the Marx Brothers. They were sort of my all-time favorite. My parents showed me their movies when I was very young. And as I got older, I became a Charlie Chaplin fan, and I love Buster Keaton.

Any celebrity that goes on Twitter and spouts off, as if we should care what they say, is opening himself or herself up to ridicule by anyone else.

I like to get my 10,000 steps in.

I actually grew up in the 'burbs - New Rochelle, specifically, most famously home to Rob and Laura Petrie of 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'

Now everybody's got a video camera, so go make videos with your friends or see if you can get a part in a film school thing that's being done.

My children are largely unimpressed with what I do for a living. I wouldn't have it any other way.