I wasn't a kid who moved out from Iowa with aspirations of becoming a famous star - I was intrigued by the idea of filmmaking and by the idea of what it would be like to play a character in a movie.

I know sour, which allows me to appreciate the sweet.

I always set out to just work, as an actor, and try to do as many different things as I possibly could, and not be too selective or too careful. I think just working is fun.

When you reach a certain status in Hollywood, you have to play a lot of games to stay in the limelight. It becomes more about being famous than being an actor.

Celebrities say they date other celebrities because they have the same job. But I think they just like dating famous people. Celebrities attract each other, like cattle.

I can do movies maybe that have already been written, but I can't do anything for months at a time.

Pilots get made, and they don't go to series. Stuff gets written and never gets made. I've tried to develop stuff that never went. It comes and it goes. It's a part of the process.

I think kids like chaos, in an interesting way. I think kids like to push buttons in adults. They like to antagonize and cause trouble. I think it's the kid-like spirit that kids respond to.

It's difficult to get away from the shadow of a TV character.

I was a little nerdy, but I got along with everybody. I had fun at school - skateboarding, surfing, getting kicked out of class for making too much noise.

I was born in Orange, California and I grew up in Huntington Beach. I started skateboarding when I was five and continued to do so off and on over the years.

The greatest players use anger as fuel. Michael Jordan played every night with something like road rage.

That way you can be certain to learn something you didn't know previously.

One of the greatest thrills in all of life is to feel the hand of God working through you and to be a part of the working reality of the church engaged in a movement larger than self.

I spent a lot of my life schlepping around New York with people not doing things for me.

Concentrate on how good if feels to be alive. No matter what. Just to see the color of the sky, just to smell the air, and feel the wind in your face

It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.

Emailing a meaningful photograph to someone who is not expecting it can change a relationship forever.

There's one stereotype in the industry that Asian people aren't funny, I've heard that over and over again.

Succeeding in business is all about making connections

From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.