After I left LA… it was like waking up. And so I moved back east and stopped auditioning.

I have no pets now.

In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.

Does celebrity interest anyone? It’s definitely not appealing to me. I think anyone who’s had any real exposure to it would probably regret ever having even entertained the idea.

I think that there’s this prejudice, that people that have a college education are more intelligent than people that don’t.

Celebrity never really served me that well; it serves other people well.

Was Andy Warhol a bisexual?

I get offered a lot of the same type of thing… The teenage slasher movies.

I haven’t seen the movie yet – maybe I’m terrible, so I shouldn’t really speak to it.

My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.

I didn’t have to audition. That’s common, but it had never happened to me before. Normally, I hate auditioning. I need to stew and think… let the character develop and grow inside me.

Since I left school, I’ve been working on my music career. I would love to be a musician… I wish I could just sit around and play music for myself, but I can’t. I just...

I don’t really care that much about being a matinee idol.

I make out with Christina Ricci… many times. But no real love scenes. I’m dying to.

If you look at the paths of other actors, most people have a curve where you hit it and there’s a time where you make a lot of money and they let you make your...

There were many incidents that influenced me over the course of my life. I mean, how does one first learn about human rights? It’s constantly evolving, and if there was some big-bang-like event, I can’t...

I am in the process of starting a nonprofit organization that gives rescued animals a home in a simulated wild environment and, for those who have been tested on, who are disabled, aggressive, etc., their...

I had a public school education – 3,000 kids when I was there. And there were a lot of teachers who would just sit there. You’d come in and sign your name and the teacher...

I have friends who remember seeing fish hauled onto a boat’s deck and beaten to death.

Columbia has this contemporary civilization program – western philosophy and political thought. The professor I keep in touch with recommended Anton Mesmer.

The first dog I had was owned by an abusive couple. He was very skittish. He wouldn’t let me hold him. It was explained to me that it was because of how he was treated.

I have had many, many cats. We seem to connect well. I had a snake when I was a boy. It was given to me on my birthday.

In my movies, there has been little to do in the way of animal rights. I have never worked in a movie with animals. No horse-riding, no trained dogs, lions, bears. A few actors, but...

I love getting ready to do a scene, and thinking about it, and talking about it. But the rest of the time, I’m so nervous and obsessed. I’m just tearing my hair out in the...

When I like someone a lot, I get scared that I’ll let them down. My fear of sucking is worst when I feel like someone thinks I’m good.

The thing about Interview is that it’s very flattering. I guess that’s all most magazines are. They take the new, up-and-coming star and make them seem like they possess whatever qualities are popular… regardless of...

I like studio movies; I love big commercial movies.

When I was a freshman in high school, my drama teacher, an incredible, inspirational genius, the guy who got me into acting, he encouraged me to get the lead in a musical. They didn’t have...

I’m tired of playing the brat.

I think David Letterman is a genius. Night after night he is funny and smart. He seems to really enjoy his jokes. They seem connected to who he really is. I like watching him, and...

I believe veganism can be beneficial for the individual and the world, and of course the animal, but belief is like laying in the dark with someone and telling them you love them and hearing...

I love animals, but I love people, and I love people who have all kinds of beliefs.

If I can’t see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny?

I’m not that into the fake meat anymore. The familiar texture makes the transition from meat to soy and wheat products easier, but it’s kind of limiting. There are lots of great ways to prepare...

All cultures are different. Some commit genocide. Some are uniquely peaceful. Some frequent bathhouses in groups. Some don’t show each other the soles of their shoes or like pictures taken of them. Some have enormous...

We obsess about celebrities. We create them, build myths around them, and then hunt them and destroy them. I don’t know where it’s taking us or what it means, but I know we do it....

I do think people do pick movies that reveal something about them that they aren’t always aware of. If you ask them what kind of an actor they think they are, they’ll probably tell you...

I tell people I’m studying Ebonics.

It seems like they never say anything bad about actors, they just pump them up.

I just gave up on acting for a couple of years until Good Will Hunting came around, and since it was Gus, it was hard to say no.

They wanted me to do Scream 2, and I hate talking about movies I turned down, because it sounds judgmental. There’s nothing wrong with horror movies. I enjoy watching them. The main reason I turn...

I moved out to LA, got an agent, started auditioning. I didn’t know anything about how it worked. And since I was really bad, luckily, I didn’t get any of those parts.

After high school, I drove out to L.A. with a friend of mine who had just graduated also, and I started auditioning. I got an agent, but it was all ‘Saved By the Bell’ auditions.

I’m not that smart.

People should try eating no animal products for just ONE DAY a week.

I have had a turtle, a guinea pig, a dog, girlfriends, and many sweet, playful, sleepy, loving, delicious cats. I love the way cats look at me.

The way people appear in the gossip papers, as they’re depicted as celebrities, it’s not often much like who they are. The more people I meet, the more that’s true. Sometimes, they’re worse.

What is acceptable in our culture, I think, is really detrimental. I think we ought to have a little more ownership over the kind of material and the content that we put in front of...

My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don’t put me in danger.

I also learned to separate my experience on the set from how I felt about my performance in the movie. Because most of the time I just hate myself.