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 on a private jet across the country and stay in first class hotels? So we’re enjoying it, but I’d stop if it’s not possible.
I’ve learned to be more reserved, watch what I’m saying; I got in a little bit of trouble. People tell me ‘Never lose that, never lose that,’ but then I get in trouble so I have to lose it. I’m trying to keep a little bit; I’m never going to lose who I am, I just gotta tone it down a little bit.
To be an actor, a true actor, you have to be brokenhearted.
If you can mix Hilary Duff and Gary Oldman into the same actor, that’s my goal. I know it’s strange to think about, but that’s the goal.
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’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 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 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.
My mom is the backbone not just of my family but of many families.
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.
Talent is to actors what luck is to card players. Its not really anything; its just a fictitious word that people have created and labeled things. Talent is like, you know, I never really believed in talent, I believed in drive and determination and preparation, but talent is sort of like luck.
As an actor, the minute you start getting real in interviews, you lose mystery.
A relationship to me is never about the romance.
I am trying to impress myself. I have yet to do it.
Every time you make a movie it’s an adventure.
I’m not a strikingly handsome guy, but I’m in movies.
I’m a video game fan, and I always thought it would be cool to be able to control a character.
Nobody makes movies like Oliver Stone.
The best movies are simple.
I would like to be George Clooney diplomatic. I just don’t have the wherewithal yet or the inner serenity.