American Quotes

My best male friend is my best friend until he crosses me. We're all protective of the self.

I'm more than open to hope, but I think men and women have a difficult time dealing with each other and often take the low road.

I was very careful to cast guys who were very good-looking and very fit and who had a certain sense of privilege about them, because with that sense of privilege comes contempt.

I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation.

Everybody has the ability to be manipulative, to be hateful and deceitful.

We live in a disposable society. It's easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name - we call it recycling.

In a relationship you have to open yourself up.

Dream research is a wonderful field. All you do is sleep for a living.

Not all lucid dreams are useful but they all have a sense of wonder about them. If you must sleep through a third of your life, why should you sleep through your dreams, too?

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!