Like anyone who goes to college, you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you're starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting.

We all approached doing a sequel with great trepidation and skepticism.

But I did have two months off between Loser and the start of Prozac Nation. So, it was supposed to be Jason time, right? My time to enjoy myself away from movies.

I don't know if you'll see me jumping out of planes anytime soon.

A girl came up to me in a bar and said she wanted to be my apple pie. I wish I'd said something cool, but I was stunned.

Getting married has shifted my focus, in such a profound way. You just realize, "Oh, I can't be so selfish anymore. There's someone else."

You realize we're all going to go to college as virgins. They probably have special dorms for people like us.

I like to think what I bring to the table is kind of a sympathetic and endearing quality, even while I'm playing outcasts or characters that end up in outlandish situations.

Well, I'm proud to say American Pie was the kind of crazy, gross-out film that guys thought was the greatest.

I've heard every pie joke in the book. I'm still waiting for an original one.

People would see me on a Nickelodeon commercial, and I would hear about it the next day in school

I did not marry the first girl that I fell in love with, because there was a tremendous religious conflict, at the time. She was an atheist, and I was an agnostic.

I like to set my dreams high. That way, even if I only make it half way there, it's still pretty darned good.

To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind.

Pray as if everything depended on God and work as if everything depended upon man.

I grew up in California, which was not - at least in the '50s and '60s - a cultural oasis by any means. Certainly not Orange County, anyway.

When I am upset about something, it gives me a stomachache. I have to address it right away so that I don't make myself sick.

Even worse than seeing women's privacy violated on social media is reading the accompanying comments that show such a lack of empathy.

He that hath lands hath quarrells.

There is, therefore, a more perfect intellectual life in the angels. In them the intellect does not proceed to self-knowledge from anything exterior, but knows itself through itself.

It is far better to live like a lion for a day then to live like a jackal for hundred years.