I've just got to maintain my passion for what I do.

The role of Rimbaud is one of the most important roles to play for a young actor.

One of my passions is to meet people and then imitate them. I love doing that.

This created world really helped me as an actor. It heightened everything, which made it more dangerous, more interesting and more liberating.

People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall.

I think people read the tabloids because they want to see you eating a burger, or out of your makeup or doing something stupid because they just want to see that you're like everyone else. And that's okay. I don't want to catch myself anymore saying that my life is hard, because the good far outweighs the bad in my life. And it's easier to focus on those things, on the things that are important.

I remember the 'Checkered Demon'. He's this little devil with this three-foot dong that just porks everybody. And that wa s my idea of what sex was about. And I was, "Oh, wow! I can't wait.