There’s something about studying body language and non-spoken emotion – I know the innate response. But to really study it like a science would be fun.

I would like to be George Clooney diplomatic. I just don’t have the wherewithal yet or the inner serenity.

Have you ever noticed how most critics disagree with the public? That should tell you a lot about critics.

Now my dad is with me, traveling with me and a big part of this whole thing is I like to mix it up a little bit, you know. Who gets to take their father...

I trained more than anybody ever in a golf film ever made – my swing is pretty hot.

It’s kind of a self-help book for the ‘hood, if there is such a thing,

I think, my generation, it’s hard to have hope when you got a $700-trillion derivatives debt to pay and a bubble about to explode and $500 trillion worth of GDP.

I turned down twelve films last year… Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.

Every actor chooses their story at the beginning.

Agents are used to the parents pimping. They’re not used to the kid pimping.

Nobody strives to lose.

In my parents’ generation, rebellion was pop culture. It’s not anymore.

I don’t even really know what it is I do for a living – the level of insecurity is very, very high. You’re making a lot of money, getting a lot of accolades and positive...

I’m kind of bi-polar.

I come from French Cajun Jewish people.

You can go to college when you are 30 or 40.

To be an actor, a true actor, you have to be brokenhearted.

I’m very picky and I’m in a situation where it’s a big crossover.

I think there’s a form of honesty, because I used to be very honest with the press, and then it backfired on me, and I understood it.

My first car, I got it in an auction at my temple. It was an ’86 Volvo that I got for 500 bucks, and then wound up throwing $10,000 into the stereo system and put...

I was planning on going to Yale to theater school.

Francis was never supposed to win. It was David versus two Goliaths, … Francis couldn’t even walk on the course unless he was carrying something that belonged to someone else who was employing him. So...

I like the dark, mysterious, maybe even gothic type girls. They have to have a good personality too! I’m very picky!

I want my audience to know me for my work, not because of who I’m dating or what drugs I’m on or what club I went to.

I never get in trouble.

If I had more recreation time I would be able to step back and reflect on how life has changed. But it has been like a constant… boom, boom, boom, boom, boom!

None of my friends were ever as broke as I was.

I think every young actor in Los Angeles went up for that role. It was between Frankie Muniz and me, and he pulled out, so I got the role.

When you look at golf films before us they’re all – garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you...

I’m not that smooth.

I don’t have many actor friends.

My generation will actually be the first generation that is tamer than the one that came before it, and it will probably be poorer; less fun and less money.

I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there’s a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you’ll...

Every time you make a movie it’s an adventure.

I’m an individual, and I have opinions.

There’s a form of selling out. It’s necessary. You have to become edible for people in Texas. You have to become edible for the Christian right, for mass audiences.

I’m a call-sheet junkie. I love being on set. So, the hardest thing for me is dealing with all this idle time. That’s when I get into trouble.

Yeah, I liked Madagascar , but March is more of a help, because this is the first animation done like documentary-style. It’s also the first animation where everything’s pretty much ad-libbed. All the dialogue’s ad-libbed....

All of the things that have happened in my life have been self-propelled. I can’t blame anybody else or point a finger at anybody.

I’d love to go to school and have a normal life, but I don’t see any professor at Yale being able to teach me more than Steven Spielberg.

I think I’m prone to not being a good guy in relationships.

I’ve spent more on my Dodger tickets that I did on my car.

Sometimes perception is almost more important than the skill level of an actor.

I think penguins are the most human of all the birds, which may be why people love them. They’re cute, they stand upright and they look like they’re wearing tuxedos.

I’ve been in fights, but that doesn’t make me cool or like a tough guy or more interesting actor, I’m not proud of it.

If you asked an 18-year-old what they want to do with their life, and the options are ‘Transformers’ or Lars von Trier, he’s probably shipping out for ‘Transformers.’ If you ask a 26-year-old what he...

I’ve never been able to learn from other people’s mistakes – I’m not that smart – so I usually learn by trial by fire.

I don’t have to live this lavish lifestyle.

And I’m not a personality; otherwise I’d be coming out with an album, performing on MTV. All that stuff is possible and I can do that tomorrow. I just have no need.

I feel like I’m really honest in my interviews, to a fault. I’ve lost friends over it. Major friends. And I’m heartbroken about that.