As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong. That's what I find with acting. As soon as it becomes padded, it becomes pat.

Don't hit people; don't let it get you too angry; remember that everything you do can and will be used against you. And take a breath and have some perspective.

I really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood.

The skill set for hockey is so specific to skating and if you haven’t been skating as a kid it’s impossible to play - and I wasn’t a skater.

You always have to create the character from the ground up.

I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.

I'm actually a very bad surfer, which is good because everybody likes a bad surfer. Nobody likes a good surfer.