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 wants to do, ‘Transformers’ or Lars von Trier, he’d probably pick Lars von Trier. So, my sensibilities are changing as...

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.

I used to dirt bike a lot. I can’t do that anymore. Can’t eat a whole lot of chocolate anymore, either. I can’t be in ‘Indiana Jones’ and be a fatso!

I grew up around a lot of aggressive guys. My parents used to take me to AA meetings when I was very young. So I know aggression, I know insanity.

You never really meet a human being until you live with them or know them for awhile, so this is my clown and they understand that and so these interviews don’t bother them.

I’m not a celebrity, I’ve kind of been under the radar, has kept it easier for me to maintain a career.

People think that their vote counts. They go to college, and everything gets mixed up. People stop caring, … They raise the gas prices, but what the Everyman makes and welfare never seem to keep up. The HMO system is so ridiculous. I’m slightly educated. No one wants to hear what Hilary Duff thinks of...

To be able to sit in Donald Trump’s apartment and talk about the future of corporate real estate was amazing.

I’m a little territorial and defensive.

People are still emulating the old fashioned criminal.

My family’s lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.

The best movies are simple.

I have a very nappy, curly head.

What’s cool is when you’re able to give your audience imagination and you don’t have to cage them in like animals.

Look, you’re on the set for six months, with someone who’s rooting to be attracted to you, and you’re rooting to be attracted to them. I never understood the separation of work and life in that situation. But the time I spent with Megan was our own thing.

No, I was an unknown when I walked in that room. He didn’t know who I was from a fly on the wall.

I don’t like having my space invaded.

But this is a little different. This is the adult acting. This is a different crowd. It’s more work and more good work. That’s it. People will have their opinion regardless.

No, I come for a hippy lifestyle, it’s very open; my parents are both hippies.

I’m not a strikingly handsome guy, but I’m in movies.

I didn’t read the book on how to be a well-adjusted celebrity.

Actors live dependent on being validated by other people’s opinions. I don’t understand what it is I do that people want. I don’t know what an actor does. I have no credentials. I don’t know what I’m doing.

I’m not a star, I’m an actor.

Matt Damon in ‘Bagger Vance’ trained for a week,

If I have enough money to eat I’m good.

I’m an only child, so I’m pretty much a loner.

Well, you don’t make any demands to Steven Spielberg.

There’s no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist.

The big thing for actors is the level of commitment.

My dad is a motorcycle guy, not some Hollywood dude.

When a gust of wind hits a broken bone, you feel it.

Talent is to actors what luck is to card players. It’s not really anything; it’s just a fictitious word that people have created and labeled things. Talent is like, you know, I never really believed in talent, I believed in drive and determination and preparation, but talent is sort of like luck.

Oh, I’ve been in love with every woman I’ve ever worked with.

I enjoy what I’m able to give my family.

That’s one thing I never had to do on a Mike Bay set is sit around and pontificate about the next scene; there’s no time for it. You’re already in the next scene.

I have a hard time with free time.

If I could meet my mother and marry her, I would. I would be with my mother now, if she weren’t my mother, as sick as that sounds.

I’m just selfish. I have to be for what I do.

And if you’re a golfer and you watch a golf film and Matt Damon swing, and it’s not great, then you’re not going to believe in the golf story, you’re not going to believe in the rest of the film. That’s the whole movie, so if that swing looks like crap, the movie’s crap.

I’m only going to work now when I’m terrified.

[Director Bill Paxton] told me to watch ‘The Legend of Bagger Vance,’ … I go watch it, and I come back and he goes, ‘We are not making ‘Bagger Vance.’

Crime is sexy.

There will always be opportunities to be in love again.

A relationship to me is never about the romance.

My parents are retired, basically.