I don't like to let my celebrity interfere with me living my life. I like to meet people, I like to talk to people.

I was not familiar with the book [before filming in The Outsiders] , though. Interestingly, The Outsiders had not reached the point where it is now, where it's required reading in sixth and seventh grades. In my sixth and seventh grade, we did not, but today everyone does.

Whether you're a movie star or doing time in a correctional institute, everybody can have bad judgment, and it's something you have to address. You learn to go on from it. It shouldn't stand in your way. You shouldn't let people continue to throw it in your face.

Apparently Sodapop Curtis said "gnarly," and Chris Traeger said "literally." Every decade I have a favorite phrase I can't stop with.

So I came to the realization: Nothing in life is unfair. It's just life.

As far as my work for causes or social issues, that's something I'm doing as a private citizen.

Chris [Farley] - I would consider him a comic animal. With the emphasis on "animal."