Quotes from Matthew Gray Gubler

What I like most about directing is creating a world more so than anything. To me, the music is the wrapping paper on that world.

I'm very similar to the way I was when I was 5.

I'm not the best singer.

Joe Mantegna is like my Los Angeles dad.

A fantastic actor in a scene that's just closed off will be good. But when working with a director who knows little tricks - correct music, slowly pushing in - that stunning performance will somehow become even better. I've always seen it as a symbiotic relationship.

I get very little sleep. But I try to stay constantly busy. My fear is that if I stop working I'll, like, die. So throughout my life I've always tried to remain busy, and I sort of know no other way. I think if my heart rate slowed it would affect my constitution, strangely. I've been trained to do that.

I'm as happy entertaining one person as I am entertaining a million people.

Being on a TV show is incredibly daunting.

I remember a kid throwing an orange at the back of my head in Spanish class and calling me four-eyes, and I remember saying, I said, 'That's true, and I have two more eyes than you.' I felt like it was better. If I have four eyes, I'm twice as good as you.

I've had this unbelievable amount of good fortune and I'm just so thankful for it. But at the same time I feel exceptionally guilty. I have so many friends who are talented graduates of Juilliard and are exceptional actors and I'm the lucky one that somehow got such a fortunate break.

I think the key to directing a great music video is in making sure the song is great, and if it is, then it becomes really fun.

I was wearing women's jeans way before it was cool for guys to wear them. I have a weird torso - it's incredibly short, and only girl-pants fit me properly.

When I watch movies - when I watch 'Star Wars' - you want to watch the fun characters, the diversions.

I found out that smoking is the leading cause of statistics.

My parents instilled a very strong work ethic in me from a young age, fortunately.

The nature of storytelling, since the dawn of man, has a beginning, a middle, and an end.

I look a little like Beaker. I think I'm a cross between Beaker and The Count. My hair looks like Oscar the Grouch. It's Muppety hair.

I've always been a fan of Andy Kaufman.

I just love entertaining. I will do anything - stand-up comedy, video games, fencing, internet shorts - I just want to keep being lucky enough to entertain people anyway I can. I try never to limit my art to a medium.

I know when an actor goes in to audition, if they don't get the part, it's not because they're a bad actor at all; it's because it's not quite the right fit.

I am weird that I love auditioning.

It feels, to me, when you're with someone you really love, you never look at your phone.

I never thought I'd be making a living off of acting - it's still kind of a shock for my family and friends to see my face on TV every Wednesday night.

France has given us the best filmmakers and food.