I just never felt like I belonged anywhere. I always had a stick with a little knapsack attached.

The way I survived growing up in Jersey City was by being funny. It wasn't by being tough. Nobody thought of me as a tough kid, except for the kids I beat up.

I just never felt like I belonged anywhere. I always had a stick with a little knapsack attached.

It's the board I had a problem with. I could totally handle being in the water and stuff. I came here to do my own stunts. Water! Ocean! Action! Big waves! That water, that water has tamed me. You can feel that the world is connected to it.

My dad was more, "Let's play chess. Read a book, you're stupid." He's more the intellectual type.

I'd done two years' worth of extra work, and all my friends who I would go on auditions with went to school for acting. These were kids who knew when they were 14 years old that this was what they wanted to do with their lives, and they prepared for it, and they're getting canned at every audition.

I don't have an agent. The only work I get is through friendships that I've already built.