I look for things that are going to challenge me as an actor.

I was a hyper kid in school and the teacher suggested to my mom she needed to do something with me.

I'm living with two guys. I'm living with a slob and a guy who sleeps all day.

I wouldn't want to direct. I see how much work it is.

Yeah, I love doing ensemble pieces. You get to meet so many new people and make new friends.

I don't think I want to play a teenager anymore.

I guess I'm growing up in the film world.

The next movie I do is not going to be in school.

I can't do talk shows, I don't do them, just because I get really nervous and fidgeting and shaky.

For instance, when I go to the premiere on Tuesday I probably won't watch the film at all - I'll be watching the audience just to see their reaction to different moments, what I'm doing right and what I'm doing wrong, stuff like that.

I took six months off, finished high school, and hung out with friends.

I started off in a small theatre performance company and worked my way into commercials.

I would definitely stay in the business, be behind the camera maybe.

I look for things that are going to challenge me as an actor.

Id like to do an action film or a dark sort of independent piece.

I've never liked the press part of it (no offense), but it comes with the job.

I spent most of my high school years on movie sets and I'd have like one teacher, which was really bad.

Final Destination was the closest thing I've done to a teen movie but it certainly had an edge to it.

You know, I've never shot a gun in a movie.

I want do some kind of action movie, car chases and explosions.

When the movie's on, I usually watch more of the audience.

I've always been interesting in the lighting aspect and always listened to what they were saying.

I would like to do something a little bit more edgy.

For every 10 good things, there's always some jerk that wants to say something bad.

I'm trying to go through the whole process of high school to college to work.

My favorite actor is Wallace Beery.

I've been a very lucky actor.

I don't think I could be happy as an actor if there was a tyrant on the set.

When I was starting to get noticed as an actor in the 1970s for something other than the third cowboy on the right who ended up dying in every movie or episode, Burt Reynolds was the biggest star in the world.

Most parts that can be played by one actor can equally well be played by another, but not this.

I think, frankly, that I'm a better director than I was an actor.

I knew an actor's career goes up and down and back up again. Your standing in this business can't be your whole identity; otherwise, you're doomed.

I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself.

I don't think there has been any increase in sophistication in the audience. When people are aware of a concept that's easy to understand, and there's an actor who will attract them to the theater and it's a movie that's funny three-quarters of the time, it will be successful.

I never dreamed about being an actor, because that was out of reach. Coming from a small town that was big in farming, and also big in clothing factories, you don't dream about being a professional football player or an actor.

My goal was always to be recognized as a good actor but no one was interested in that, simply because society just wants to warm towards your appearance. This is the great blemish of society.

If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable.

To be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

It was very natural for me to want to disappear into dark theater, I am really very shy. That is something that people never seem to fully grasp because, when you are an actor, you are meant to be an exhibitionist.

I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that.

And once you cease to be a real person, you stop being a good actor.

When I decided I wanted to be an actor, I said I wanted to work with quality actors and directors.

There are roles I want that my agency might not want me to do because of the subject matter or whatever. Or there are roles that people won't bring to me because they don't think I'll do it. And that is a big strain because an actor wants to act.

Reality is, I'm an actor and an entertainer, and I really wouldn't know what to do with another profession.

I still feel like I'm trying to make it. It's hard to shed the struggling actor thing.

Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor's art infinite.

Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.

I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.

In other words, I wouldn't like to be an actor if I could only be real. I like to get wild, behaviorally wild, and it's crazy to think of any form where it's just one way.