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.

Why can’t people just say they were moved? Why do they have to say it’s sappy?

A friend – I was living with Matt Damon at the time – went in to audition for To Die For. When he met Gus, he recommended me and my brother. Because the story was...

I have a very bad relationship with mice.

When a performance isn’t working, it’s usually because the actor is trying to do something and they’re not able to express their idea very well. It’s a muddled expression.