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.

My family, my parents are hippies.

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...

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...