It's shocking how sophisticated little kids can be, when it comes to behaving in a professional manner, and that's a credit to their parents.

I came to feel as protective of Elijah as Sam does of Frodo .. In turn, Elijah helped me discover a lot about myself and I literally might not have survived the journey had this young prince of an actor not taken me under his wing.

I kind of peak at how far I can push my body, and then I run out of determination for the habit and start easing off. It's really just a lack of focus and discipline.

I definitely loved going on stage, I loved the nervous feeling and the performance and the doing-ness of it. It always felt kind of natural and inevitable and logical.

It's in our own lives, every single day, whether we recognize it as funny at the moment or not.

I don't want to play the fat guy or the friend for the rest of my life

When you're a kid, you just have no concept of anything other than what you're doing.