Quotes from Zach Braff

I'm kind of jealous of the life I'm supposedly leading.

People ask me, 'Did the fame come too fast? Do you ever wish for your old life?' I always tell them that there's nothing on earth better than being famous.

It's funny when I read the tabloids and they're reporting on only a fraction of the life I'm leading.

I think in a play it's wise to just sit back and watch other actors and be able to shape it from the audience.

My mother's a psychologist, my stepfather's a psychologist, my stepmother is a therapist and my dad's a lawyer. So it was all prominent in my life. I don't know anyone who doesn't know someone on some form of prescription medicine.

In New York, we tip everyone. We tip doormen, we tip cab drivers, and we tip bartenders at the bar. You'll get quite an evil eye if you don't leave a tip at the bar.

Yea, I've got a dream too. It involves time-travel and a rifle.

It's not that I'm racist or anything, because I'm not, but I just don't think we should be wasting our time helping people that are going to die soon anyway.

Seriously, when's the last time you saw me wear shorts?

I've been doing som jogging at home recently and every time I try the distance I end up beating his time with like three or four seconds.

People compared Garden State to the Graduate, but when was the last time you saw Dustin Hoffman doing what I do?

One time this guy on the street wanted me to give him a medical opinion, because I'm a doctor on TV. I'm also a real doctor. But I'm also Zack Braff, so I kicked him in the groin.

People always tell me I should run for president, but I don't think they'd give me enough time off to make my films.

Now that 'Scrubs' is over, people seem to feel more comfortable telling me that I was a total douche to them for the past 8 years. And the whole time I'm thinking, 'Who ARE you?'

One time a reporter asked me what my worst quality was. I looked him in the eyes then punched him in the face. I kind of felt bad about it later, but he didn't need to be rude.

I'm a film geek man. I love toys. I love everything in filmmaking, so for me to just be around this technology is just so cool to watch it being used for the first time, some of the stuff.

I am really driven, but my drive doesn't affect the conversations I have in my head about life, and worries and fears and insecurities.

I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.

It's all about being a part of something in the community, socializing with people who share interests and coming together to help improve the world we live in.

That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.

In theater or movies you see either 'I'm religious' or 'I'm an atheist.' I've never seen too much discussion of 'I believe there's a higher power but I'm hesitant to reach out to him because I don't know if I'm worthy of his attention.'

They put all this money into these huge films and then no one goes to see them. That sort of shows they're out of touch. Then everyone in town passes on my little movie and it does really well.

The best way to travel abroad is to live with the locals.

Oh sure, I have a few black people in my family tree. They're probably still hanging there.