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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

The comic book world is a tough business.

My mom is at my house every day, and she nags me about everything, especially hygiene.

A lot of people like to think that golf is a lazy man’s sport. Or it’s a rich man’s sport, or it’s a sport that they can’t be involved in.

If people perceive you as a good actor then they’ll wish for you to be a good actor and they’ll root for you when they watch you, but if you come out and you’re going...

There’s only so far you can take a relationship before you got to get into things that are too serious or over the top.

I got accepted at Yale but never went.

Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in.

I was the only white kid in my neighborhood for most of my youth even in high school, so reverse racism was just as apparent as racism.

It’s very weird because the ‘It’ guy usually is not the ‘It’ guy next year or even a guy that anyone is talking about.

It’s really easy to fall for someone on-set, but in the end you know, it’s a representative and it’s not really them.

I drink protein shakes nonstop – three or four a day – and I run a lot, so you get rid of the bad carbs and keep the rest so you have the energy to...

I’m Richie Rich. I land in New York, secretly thinking I’m like the coolest guy in the world.

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.