Like, what do you say? Do you say ‘Hey man!’ Or would you say ‘Hey peng?’ Like, to be with Jeff Bridges, first of all, is a trip. Sitting with Jeff Bridges talking about how...

Most actors on most days don’t think they’re worthy.

When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints.

Hey, I’m a human being also.

As an actor, the minute you start getting real in interviews, you lose mystery.

The hardest thing in acting is going from child actor to adult actor. It’s taken me a long time.

Old Americana vintage gangster stuff has a fantastical feel; it feels less dirty in a way. It feels like the opera of crime.

Animation has completely changed, and I’ve always been a big fan.

Once you make a studio 700 million dollars or so, or whatever the insane number is, then they finally seem to trust you, no matter how off-the-wall your project is.

We’re living through the twilight of American economic dominance.

I have a great house.

So it’s kind of nervous to be in this situation, but at the same time you look at all those actors and the work that they’ve done, I’ve been in bigger films than all of...

You can’t buy back your respect; you can’t buy back your career. You only get one, so I don’t want to mess that up.

When golf used to be a rich man’s sport, if you were poor you could not step foot on a course.

At this point I have enough money to live 25 lifetimes. You couldn’t spend the money I’ve accrued now.

I’m not an Adonis, that’s for damn sure. I’ve never really thought of myself that way, and it doesn’t matter to me. My favorite actors aren’t Adonises. Dustin Hoffman is a flawed-looking man; he’s amazing...

I’m trying to find a way to eat up time without being destructive, ’cause that’s my go-to, it seems.

When I first met Josh, I walked into a Disney screening room … and he’s sitting there talking to all these executives, like he’s holding court, … I say ‘You’ve got to be kidding me....

People were going to geometry class and I was swimming through vats of chili on ‘Even Stevens.’ It was like a dream!

I was in a relationship with a girl I loved for three years. Where do you go after three years? Then you’ve got to start thinking about other things, and I’m too young to think...

I didn’t jump onto anyone else’s coattail and ride their wave.

Latins are into clowns.

There’s never been a parent in my life.

Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.

Clubs are so lame. Nobody even dances at these clubs. They stand around and get drunk and they schmooze. There is no enjoyment factor.

Respected, I almost want to be revered, that’s what I’m chasing.

Well, there’s different shades of Hollywood, sure. I mean, I’m working in this business but I’m not Hollywood.

I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.

We did this two-week boot camp before we filmed the movie. I got to know everybody in the group and we became friends. We got really tight throughout those two weeks.

Sometimes I feel I’m living a meaningless life, and I get frightened.

I was always raised on cowboy films, and then when I could start making choices about the movies I wanted to watch I found myself wanting to watch gangster films which were slightly more sophisticated...

I come from garbage.

They’re very, uh, you know, I don’t come from the suburbs and a jolly, Disney type of lifestyle. I come from something totally different. And they’re cool and bare minimum so it’s not always a...

If I want to party, I’ll party at my house.

People classify me as a laughy-daffy Disney kid, … Even Stevens.

Probably the sexiest woman I know is my mother.

And yeah, my handicap was down to a 10 when we were at the thick of it. I trained for six or seven months, golfing every day for six hours, seven days a week, with...

I go to sleep at night, and I feel like I just dreamed the whole day.

Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin.

There’s this coming-of-age thing that’s happening within me.

I am trying to impress myself. I have yet to do it.

Everybody’s got stories. I don’t want to not have stories.

I hated golf when we first started, but a big part of the training process was falling in love with this sport, so I went on tour with the UCLA Team.

I didn’t know my dad for a long time. My dad was on drugs and my dad was at the VA Hospital, my dad was off in his own world selling drugs or using them...

I like messing around, and I like working with artists who I respect.

It’s like a mockumentary about how … penguins started surfing, and how they started the sport.

I’m a little territorial and defensive. I don’t like having my space invaded.

My neighborhood was rough, but I live a great life now. I don’t fight that much now. I don’t look for it anyway, but if someone hits your mother, whether you’re a star, an accountant,...

I’m a video game fan, and I always thought it would be cool to be able to control a character.

I’ve had to deal with all different types of situations – positive and negative and extremes of both.