I was sick of playing high-school kids. I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.

In no way would I ever assume when I meet some girl that she wants to sleep with me; that doesn't enter my mind. I think somebody who did assume that would be such an insufferably arrogant person that you couldn't be around him.

["John F. Kennedy" movie] was just really clever storytelling.

Some of the '80s movies I did are sort of museum pieces. St. Elmo's Fire is great as a sort of kitschy, "Oh, my god, I can't believe we wore that" type of movie.

[The Outsiders] was all new to me. It's been fun to be a part of that ride, where it's become on the level of Catcher In The Rye in terms of people's required reading in schools.

It's part of your job as an actor to put your personal problems behind you and work. Good actors can do that.

I really make a point of never worrying, or trying not to worry, about the way I'm perceived. You'll go crazy otherwise.