Actor Quotes

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

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

Animation has completely changed, and I've always been a big fan.

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.

And if you're a golfer and you watch a golf film and Matt Damon swing, and it's not great, then you're not going to believe in the golf story, you're not going to believe in the rest of the film. That's the whole movie, so if that swing looks like crap, the movie's crap.

And I'm not a personality; otherwise I'd be coming out with an album, performing on MTV. All that stuff is possible and I can do that tomorrow. I just have no need.

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.

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

Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.

A relationship to me is never about the romance.

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.

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

I'm just selfish. I have to be for what I do.

I was the only white kid in my neighborhood for most of my youth even in high school, so reverse racism was just as apparent as racism.

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 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 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 didn't know my dad for a long time. My dad was on drugs and my dad was at the VA Hospital, my dad was off in his own world selling drugs or using them or there would be crack heads in the house or whatever it would be.

My mom is the backbone not just of my family but of many families.

Most actors on most days don't think they're worthy.

I like the dark, mysterious, maybe even gothic type girls. They have to have a good personality too! I'm very picky!

You can't buy back your respect; you can't buy back your career. You only get one, so I don't want to mess that up.

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 never be successful.

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

My dad is a motorcycle guy, not some Hollywood dude.

I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don't understand the process of acting and who try very hard to label things.

I think that most actors, and they're a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child.

I think that all of us either lose touch with the child inside us or try and hold onto it because it so precious to us and it's such an extraordinary part of our lives.

I think Romeo and Juliet is uplifting. That's how much a son wishes to avenge his father. That is how much two young people can love each other.

I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting.