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...

I’m not that smooth.

I don’t have many actor friends.

My generation will actually be the first generation that is tamer than the one that came before it, and it will probably be poorer; less fun and less money.

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 you’ll...

Every time you make a movie it’s an adventure.

I’m an individual, and I have opinions.

There’s a form of selling out. It’s necessary. You have to become edible for people in Texas. You have to become edible for the Christian right, for mass audiences.

I’m a call-sheet junkie. I love being on set. So, the hardest thing for me is dealing with all this idle time. That’s when I get into trouble.

Yeah, I liked Madagascar , but March is more of a help, because this is the first animation done like documentary-style. It’s also the first animation where everything’s pretty much ad-libbed. All the dialogue’s ad-libbed....

All of the things that have happened in my life have been self-propelled. I can’t blame anybody else or point a finger at anybody.

I’d love to go to school and have a normal life, but I don’t see any professor at Yale being able to teach me more than Steven Spielberg.

I think I’m prone to not being a good guy in relationships.

I’ve spent more on my Dodger tickets that I did on my car.

Sometimes perception is almost more important than the skill level of an actor.