I suppose there must be some way in which I'm compelled to show some side of myself - or of people - that's paranoid and fraught and beleaguered and downtrodden, just as Tom Cruise wants to show that he's terrifyingly upbeat and terrifyingly heroic all the time.

I've got to be the geekiest guy in the world in a lot of ways. I'm like a zeta male.

My definition of likeable may be different from other people's. That's not traditional likeable. Sympathy is a different thing [to define it].

And I asked my mother 'can I touch the lady in the water? And she said yes I could, but I had to touch Mommy first. And then I asked, 'Mom, can I date the lady in the water?' and she said smiling 'sure, but you gotta date me first.' And yesterday I said 'Mom, may I marry the lady in the water?' and she said o.k., but you'll have to marry me first.

I definitely had a top-notch education.

I don't think film actors need training, really.

I still want to be the guy who can get on the subway and check out the freak on the subway.