You can't buy back your respect; you can't buy back your career. You only get one, so I don't want to mess that up.

The hardest thing in acting is going from child actor to adult actor. It's taken me a long time.

My family's lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.

I'm a video game fan, and I always thought it would be cool to be able to control a character.

There is no grand strategy. My sensibilities push me in a certain direction. Other actors have different sensibilities. That's all. I think it really is that simple. There's no grand strategy. There are so many variables that I have no control over. I sign on to movies I want to watch, as a fan.

If people perceive you as a good actor then they'll wish for you to be a good actor and they'll root for you when they watch you, but if you come out and you're going to clubs every night people don't root for you anymore.

Having emotional connections to things that don't really exist, like looking at a green ball and really loving that green ball, and being sad whether it's around or not. Stuff like that. I've never done acting at this level before so it was a huge challenge for me. It was a hurdle to overcome just to survive.