It was a lot of auditions and tapings and stuff like that.

The Professional Children's School, it's for professional kids, so if you wanted to ditch, you could just write, Audition on a note and leave. I didn't really like school all that much.

Watching a good actor is the best way to learn.

I shut up and keep my ears and eyes open.

A week before shooting, they told me, You don't have the part, yet. We're still trying to find a handicapped kid who can act. Either that or we break your legs.

I think people are going to keep asking me about Macaulay. Some things change and some things don't.

The whole family is tight. We all really love each other.

The divorce was rough on all of us. I don't blame Hollywood for my family's problems. But having all of it reported in the press made it more of an ordeal.

They put me in a whole body suit, from my neck to my ankles. It was so bad, I couldn't straighten my legs.

I feel different than I did three years ago, in The Cider House Rules.

I don't know how long I'll be trick or treating. Maybe I'll be 80 years old and still trick or treating.

I liked a lot of the scenes I did with Ryan Phillippe.

I see Igby as my first movie as an adult, and it's a big deal for me because I really, really like the film.

Igby was a really good opportunity for me to grow up. The cast was great.

It was a lot of auditions and tapings and stuff like that.

When I worked on Altar Boys, they wanted to see us having fun. The four of us would have fun on set and steal each other's lines, and mess with the director.

One of the things that amazes me about Twitter is the way it utterly eradicates artificial barriers to communication. Things like status, geopolitics and so on keep people from talking to one another. Those go away in Twitter. You see exchanges that would never happen anywhere else.

Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.

The theater is a kind of international language, and I like it. But I have a practical bent of mind, too. In any other field, I could make only about a tenth as much as I do acting. That's why I want to be a producer. It pays better, and you have more control.

I've done illustration on the side. But other than that, comics have been my main things.

Spring and fall, those are very inspiring times of the year for me.

I don't consider myself a social entrepreneur, but I'm thrilled to be doing good, if that's what I'm doing.

Success isn't about being the biggest. It's about letting the right size find you.

Heaven doesnt ignore cries of a broken heart.

I was always much more shy. All I knew was that I loved to act. But I don't know about the other part of it. I'm not sure I had the chutzpah to go and prove yourself.

The Olympics is an imperfect interregnum, the parade of nations a fantasy about a peace never won. It offers little relief from strife and no harbor from terror.

I am what I am and, you know, I'm a very lucky guy.

I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.

For black Americans, we know that gun control... sprouts from racist soil - be it after the or during the infamous Dred Scott case where black man's humanity was not recognized.

I love the shape of '50s fashion: the clothes are very flattering; they let you out in the right places. I love high heels, too, as I'm only five foot three, although I always tell people I'm five foot five.

Exaggeration is my only reality.

I worked for the Cuban American National Foundation for years.

I don't listen to music while writing; it seems to me I'm trying to make my own kind of music, and to have anything else going on is just noisy interference.

Here's the problem: the so-called 'millionaire surtax' is a permanent tax to pay for a temporary benefit.

A blade of grass is always a blade of grass whether in one country or another.

We may have all come on different ships but were in the same boat now.

When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.

I can be an incredibly fabulous person, and I don't have to be in the highest heels, the tallest wig, the skimpiest outfit. I can let other things speak for me now.

Actors have to stay optimistic. The moment we start thinking otherwise, we're dead.

If PJ Harvey ever came to town I'd definitely go try to go see her.