I understand why marriages break up over golf. I can’t even talk about my own handicap because it’s too upsetting.

I don’t know, I just want to be happy. I could be in a hole somewhere. Or I could completely lose it and be some hippy living in the woods with my dad.

I got kicked out of every school I ever went to.

Any time you’re a type, your career’s over.

To my mind, talent doesn’t really exist.

I can’t tell you how many hot dogs I’ve eaten in my life.

I wasn’t cocky, just confident; I went to an all black school, a white kid.

My mom is the backbone not just of my family but of many families.

I’ve learned a great deal about a certain type of filmmaking. But I have ambitions toward another type of filmmaking that I haven’t been allowed to engage in yet.

I think the audience is pretty intelligent.

All these animators are in there, and they go like [gasps], because it’s like a new thing, … It’s never been done like that before.

You can’t have bank holding companies acting as hedge funds. You can’t have them taking a million-dollar pension plan for Joe Schmo the bus driver and treat it with the same risk appetite that you...

I am a season ticket holder to Dodger games. I go to every Dodger game I can go to. Every single one.

My life is okay, my life is pretty good.

I think envy motivates a lot of people.

Nobody makes movies like Oliver Stone.

I come from divorce. I’m only doing marriage once. It’s not a game for me.

If you’re trying to learn how to act from a class, you’re analyzing the teachers’ movements and their intricacies, and it becomes like a pantomime of you wanting to be them, and that’s wrong. Literature...

I’m an actor, but I’m an artist.

Comics, for me, is being able to sing alone in the shower. I find it freeing. You just pick up a pen and get to it.

When you’re working with the best of the best, I’m not gonna put that on hold so I can work with people who studied the best of the best.

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...