“While I'm not a celebrity, it's such a weird concept that society has cooked up for us. Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors.”

“To be honest, I sort of feel like 'movie actor' isn't of this time. I love it. But it's a 20th-century art form.”

“Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.”

“The career stuff is for business people.”

“I was studying for the SAT's and learning lines.”

“I mean, movies in general tend to sort of portray time, space and identity as these very solid things. Time moves forward. Space is what it is. You are you, and you're always you.”

“There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more.”

“Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.”

“I don't blame folks for not wanting to put me in their movies or whatever. I understand if their audiences had an association with me.”

“Movies are different from real life.”

“The movies I watch and the music I listen to and the books I read - those are important to me. It's very important to me, and I don't know what I would do without those things.”

“Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!”

“Every day I've got to be thankful that I am alive, and you never know - the cliche is, I guess, you could get hit by a bus tomorrow, so you'd better be at peace with whatever you got going at the moment.”

“Every day I've got to be thankful that I am alive, and you never know - the cliche is, I guess, you could get hit by a bus tomorrow, so you'd better be at peace with whatever you got going at the moment.”