Quotes From Zac

• “I always have the excuse that I would have gone to college if I applied myself. I don’t know, I think I’m an intelligent guy. I’m nowhere near as intelligent as Chuck is. He went to Stanford and is this crazy brain of a guy and can figure out algorithms. I can’t even spell algorithm. So no, I’m not as smart as Chuck, but I think I’m decent. Maybe. I hope. Decently intelligent.”

• “I’m naked. I don’t understand the point of wearing clothes to bed. Why? Unless you’re really cold or sick and you’ve got to layer up to sweat it out.” On not wearing clothes to bed

• “I can destroy the dance floor. I think life should be a musical. I always hate it when people watch a musical and they go, ‘Oh, it’s so unrealistic, no one just breaks into song in the middle of their day.’ Yeah they do - if they’re me.” On getting his groove on

• “I’m more Chuck than I’m not Chuck. Pretty much my whole life, I’ve felt like a nerd. Growing up I was always the best friend to the girls, never the boyfriend.” On his inner nerd

• “It’s so frustrating because the writers have vowed to not put a gun in Chuck’s hands through the whole first season. I want to shoot a gun so bad!”

• “Everyone is throwing around ‘geek’ and ‘nerd’ and all this. I would say ‘cool-challenged,’ maybe, if we can coin that phrase. Or ‘jock-challenged’ - whatever, one of those two. But I find myself very much being able to be myself, playing video games and being a nerd, which I really, really am in so many ways.” On how he’s like his character

• “I don’t know. I got a little older, probably a little heavier. I eat a lot of pizza and don’t work out as much as I should. I do play a lot of video games.” On how he bulked up for the role

• “It was such a great experience. It was such a great show. I loved it so much. But I found myself playing a character that was much more confident and always in the very tightly cropped hair and nice clothes.” On “Less Than Perfect”

• “I may not be quite as nerdy as Chuck is, but I’ve got a nerd heart.”

• “If I’m ever going to be happy in life, I’m going to have to find a woman who likes, not likes, really loves watching her husband play video games. Because that would be…that’s a deal breaker right there. ‘Honey, I’m tied up with something right now’ ‘Oh that’s okay honey, I love watching you go.’”

• “There’s nothing like going to the emergency room at 2 a.m. and telling the doctor you’re there because of a video game. “

• “Everything you hear in an episode when we’re talking about video games is truly us talking about what we like and don’t like.”

• “You know, I’m kind of proud of my battle wounds. Very few people on earth have ever been able to say they got 14 stitches playing Nintendo.”

• “I actually went through a lot of phases. I was never a wallflower. I was a freakin’ spaz. I didn’t have an off switch. I’m sure I got on people’s nerves, but by the end of my senior year of high school I was friends with everybody. Kind of a Ferris Bueller.”

• “I get to come to work in Hollywood and get paid - let’s be honest - ridiculous amounts of money to do what I love to do, to play make-believe and be embraced by strangers who think far more of you than they ought to. It’s ridiculous.”

• “I almost cried. I couldn’t believe it. It was the first time it was really shown to the general public. Two thousand people or something are there and giving a standing ovation. We’re standing in the back and I just started tearing up a little bit! I was like ‘Oh my God, these people actually liked what we did!’ As an actor, you’re constantly looking for validation. We’re very insecure people! And so to feel like that validation was coming from all those people, and then for them to talk about it and ask questions and say, ‘Wow, we really enjoyed it’ and caring about it…it just means you’re not doing this in vain. You feel good about what you’re doing and then you’re also pumped to go back to work and shoot the rest of the series. It gives you faith that that’s a cross section of what you think a big part of your core audience is gonna be, and they all loved it. That means their counterparts throughout the country and hopefully the world will appreciate it just as much.” On the reaction ‘Chuck’ received at Comic-Con

• “We clicked right away and so much of it was the whole gamer thing. The first day McG, who directed the pilot, he sat us all down for lunch to get to know each other and what not. We play gamers in the pilot, so I think Josh looked at me at one point and said, ‘So…Are you are gamer?’ My eyes got huge and I was like, ‘Am I gamer?! Oh yes I am my friend!’ And so then we just dove into all the games. During the pilot we would sit around geeking out for 15 minutes straight about ‘I prefer Mario 1 over Mario 2 simply because the side scrolling I think was definitely better in the first generation. Being able to play the Luigi character is nice…’ Literally, this went on forever.” On his chemistry with co-star Joshua Gomez

• I think the more fun you can have between takes…it keeps the energy up. We just like fooling around, so we’ll just start a little beatboxing session and then we just layer it. We just add layer on layer on layer. And then you know it becomes an orchestra really. It’s a beatboxing orchestra, yeah. We have that at least once a day. Gomez and I will do it at least half a dozen times a day, but if we can get the rest of the people involved, then it’s much more of a group effort.”

What Other’s Have Said About Zac

• “I just love watching Zac Levi perform. I don’t know about you, but to me he seems like a modern Dick Van Dyke. You don’t get to see him sing and dance on the show, but he’ll do that when the cameras aren’t rolling. This guy is a song-and-dance man, a crooner and a comic genius. It’s wonderful to follow along in his wake. He carries us on his shoulders.” - Adam Baldwin

• “Zachary Levi is without a doubt, just one of the coolest human beings around, man. And I mean that honestly, like he became this friend of mine, he’s just genuine. For a guy who was pretty much on the cusp of superstardom or whatever, he couldn’t be more genuine. Just a good dude who looks out for everybody, not just me as a cast member, from us down. He looks out for everybody.” - Joshua Gomez

• “Zac’s a bundle of energy. He puts music on all of the time and dances to it. He’s crazy.” - Yvonne Strahovski

• “Zac just has this pure joy in humor that I don’t have but that he has. So when it’s coming from him, it’s so honest and wonderful and infectious you can’t help but laugh when he’s laughing. He’s just a beautiful person.” - Adam Baldwin

• It’s so hard for him to not be funny, because everything he does is funny. He IS Tom Hanks, mark my words he’s gonna be the next Tom Hanks, I think that guy has more talent in his thumb than anybody else in the world has. - Adam Green