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.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

I trained more than anybody ever in a golf film ever made - my swing is pretty hot.

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'm very picky and I'm in a situation where it's a big crossover.

I've been in fights, but that doesn't make me cool or like a tough guy or more interesting actor, I'm not proud of it.

If I have enough money to eat I'm good.

My family, my parents are hippies.

No, I come for a hippy lifestyle, it's very open; my parents are both hippies.

No, I was an unknown when I walked in that room. He didn't know who I was from a fly on the wall.

Respected, I almost want to be revered, that's what I'm chasing.

There's never been a parent in my life.

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.

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 can't beat him.

You never really meet a human being until you live with them or know them for awhile, so this is my clown and they understand that and so these interviews don't bother them.

Latins are into clowns.

I would like to be George Clooney diplomatic. I just don't have the wherewithal yet or the inner serenity.

I can't tell you how many hot dogs I've eaten in my life.

A relationship to me is never about the romance.

I come from divorce. I'm only doing marriage once. It's not a game for me.