Matthew Gray Gubler

“I looked like a 'Super Mario Bros.' Goomba. It's arguably the ugliest haircut on the planet.”

“I am weird that I love auditioning.”

“I really cite Walt Disney as teaching me everything I know. It sounds crazy, but I'm serious! In 'Bambi,' the mother dies, but you don't see the corpse. You see the father, the stag, come up...”

“I love the holidays - any holiday - but Christmas has always been sort of special because I grew up reading Charles Dickens.”

“I'm a control freak, and anytime I direct something, I try to make it as homemade and handmade as possible. I feel like that's my favorite type of filmmaking, where you can see the seams, an...”

“I would love to be on 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I'd love to be on that. A lot of my favorite shows get canceled really early on. I liked 'Twin Peaks.' If I had a time machine I'd be in that.”

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

“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 t...”

“My best advice to actors is if you love acting, do it every chance you get. Success does not mean success. All that matters is whether or not you're doing your best to entertain. The way thi...”

“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 Juil...”

“I think I veered towards filmmaking because there's more of a sense of control in it. You're not waiting to be picked. That said, in film school I acted in probably 6,000 student films becau...”

“Tisch has a great film program and a great acting program, but they are segregated; you don't really intertwine. My peers knew I liked acting, so they'd be like, 'Go get that guy Gubler. He'...”

“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 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 o...”

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

“If you just do a Google search and type in 'smoking' or 'lung cancer', you will be barraged with never ending facts and numbers, like how one in every three Americans is affected by lung dis...”

“I've always had the utmost respect and awe of what the lens can do and what a director can do with just a camera move.”

“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.”

“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 studied directing prior to acting and I've done music videos and documentaries and things that were sort of well-received.”