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.

I'm not a star, I'm an actor.

I'm not a celebrity, I've kind of been under the radar, has kept it easier for me to maintain a career.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

I was planning on going to Yale to theater school.

I come from French Cajun Jewish people.

Nobody strives to lose.

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

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

I'm not that smooth.

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.

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

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

The comic book world is a tough business.

I feel like I'm really honest in my interviews, to a fault. I've lost friends over it. Major friends. And I'm heartbroken about that.

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

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.

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

Any time you're a type, your career's over.

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

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

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

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.

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

I'm an actor, but I'm an artist.

Oh, I've been in love with every woman I've ever worked with.

I never get in trouble.

You can go to college when you are 30 or 40.

I got accepted at Yale but never went.

Hey, I'm a human being also.

Agents are used to the parents pimping. They're not used to the kid pimping.

My family's lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.

Every actor chooses their story at the beginning.

None of my friends were ever as broke as I was.

I enjoy what I'm able to give my family.

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.

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

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 make it through.

The best movies are simple.

To be an actor, a true actor, you have to be brokenhearted.

I used to dirt bike a lot. I can't do that anymore. Can't eat a whole lot of chocolate anymore, either. I can't be in 'Indiana Jones' and be a fatso!

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 understand why marriages break up over golf. I can't even talk about my own handicap because it's too upsetting.

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.

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 eight trainers. It was intense.