Zach Braff
Zach Braff
Zachary Israel "Zach" Braff is an American actor, comedian, director, screenwriter and producer. He is best known for his role as Dr. John Dorian on the television series Scrubs, for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series in 2005...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth6 April 1975
CitySouth Orange, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
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I'd love to do more theater in New York City. And I'd love the chance to do a big movie with a great director -- you know, the Coen brothers or Woody Allen or Steven Spielberg, ... I'd love a shot at that.
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I'm hanging out with my New York friends, my Jersey boys, my family and loving every single second of it.
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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.
new-york writing years
I did theater for a few years while I was in New York, but it was tough having to perform scripts worse than what I knew I could write.
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It was pretty much the last person we found - an independent financier who paid for the whole thing out of his pocket.
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I've always wanted to have kids of my own, it's just tough finding a woman I wouldn't be wasting my DNA on.
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They all saw my short films, and I think that changed their opinion of me as just a guy on a sitcom because they liked my movie.
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This movie's really about someone who's opening up a new chapter in their life.
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They're huge shoes to fill ... if people see any similarities, he was a goofy guy who wasn't your stereotypical magazine poster boy, but he had the ability to be a great everyman. If I can set out to do anything in my career, it would be to play people that the people can relate to. Those are the parts I'm most interested in doing.
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I remember seeing her in "Beautiful Girls" and "The Professional" and being like, This girl is genius! This girl is ahead of her time. This girl is a prodigy.
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I just felt that like an actor it's really hard to get a really good role. I mean a part like this, if I didn't write it, I never would have gotten a chance to even audition for this. ... So, I felt like I wanted to give myself a break in the movie world. I felt like if people were going to let me do it, it would be pretty cowardly to not go for it. So I wanted to just, in the spirit of the movie, seize the day,
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Gay men in L.A. are all a bunch of tens looking for an eleven.
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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.
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When we shoot 'Scrubs' I spend every waking hour of my life in an abandoned and haunted hospital. All I can date there are ghosts and they tend to be horrible snugglers.