Respected, I almost want to be revered, that's what I'm chasing.
The hardest thing in acting is going from child actor to adult actor. It's taken me a long time.
People were going to geometry class and I was swimming through vats of chili on 'Even Stevens.' It was like a dream!
Every actor chooses their story at the beginning.
There's a form of selling out. It's necessary. You have to become edible for people in Texas. You have to become edible for the Christian right, for mass audiences.
I would like to be George Clooney diplomatic. I just don't have the wherewithal yet or the inner serenity.
Latins are into clowns.
I wasn't cocky, just confident; I went to an all black school, a white kid.
The comic book world is a tough business.
I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.
I'm Richie Rich. I land in New York, secretly thinking I'm like the coolest guy in the world.
I was always raised on cowboy films, and then when I could start making choices about the movies I wanted to watch I found myself wanting to watch gangster films which were slightly more sophisticated than the baseline stuff that was in westerns.
I didn't know my dad for a long time. My dad was on drugs and my dad was at the VA Hospital, my dad was off in his own world selling drugs or using them or there would be crack heads in the house or whatever it would be.
Actors live dependent on being validated by other people's opinions. I don't understand what it is I do that people want. I don't know what an actor does. I have no credentials. I don't know what I'm doing.
I'm very picky and I'm in a situation where it's a big crossover.
I have a very nappy, curly head.
Clubs are so lame. Nobody even dances at these clubs. They stand around and get drunk and they schmooze. There is no enjoyment factor.
I'm a little territorial and defensive.
I'm a little territorial and defensive. I don't like having my space invaded.
I think, my generation, it's hard to have hope when you got a $700-trillion derivatives debt to pay and a bubble about to explode and $500 trillion worth of GDP.
