Well, I guess most people would only know me from The O.C. I did a few episodes of Gilmore Girls before that. I was also a client on a lot of lawyer shows.

There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care.

It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.

Welcome to a life of insecurity and paralyzing self-doubt.

My best jokes are so cheap. All I do is say things sarcastically.

I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.

I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.

I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.

And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward can be slightly cool.

I feel like Hollywood is a big high school again. Seriously, Ashton Kutcher is the prom king.

Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough thing and hard to get over.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

Faith will not be restored in the West because people believe it to be useful. It will return only when they find that it is true.

Iraq did nothing to us. Iraq was not responsible for 9/11.

I was my own worst enemy in my debut. Not one player tested my mechanics.

I used to make fun of the kids in school who acted or went to dance class.

It is true that prosperity has many close friends; poverty, on the other hand, has only distant watchers!

Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.

Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh.

There are a few things that can be done only by experiencing them. Love is one of them. There is no way to learn it; you have to do it. And by trial and error one learns.

Virtue is presupposed in friendship.