I just want to keep laying down really great, strong characters, and the more I go unrecognized, the better job I feel I'm doing.

I want my career to grow gradually. There's still so much for me to learn. I'm just trying to take these opportunities to get better at what I'm doing.

I think acting has made me very in tune with human behavior and myself as well.

Stand By Me' was really great for me and my buddies; we'd all watch that together because that was us - we were down in the creek and hanging out every day and going on little adventures. I had about sixteen friends who are all about the same age as me and lived in a three-block radius. We spent our entire childhood down in that creek.

I guess through my learning disability, through dyslexia, I've always been a visual learner - I take in everything through my eyes.

I just want to keep laying down really great, strong characters, and the more I go unrecognized, the better job I feel I'm doing.

It's weird that you have to work really, really hard just to be real or normal. Everybody's got their different techniques, but what makes a really good actor is somebody who's really believable.