Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on. |
After Stand By Me came out people were telling me, 'You're so good,' 'You're going to be a star,' and things like that. You can't think about it. If you take it the wrong way, you can really get high on yourself. People get so lost when that happens to them. They may think they have everything under control, but everything is really out of control. Their lives are totally in pieces. |
Biggest problem was I was terrible for commercials - I couldn't smile on cue. |
Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn't like selling products I didn't believe in. |
Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people. |
I did my best work in The Mosquito Coast. I know it wasn't such a big hit, but for me it was more meaningful than anything else I'd ever done. |
I don't need tightly exploitative. Suggesting that I would use this personal part of my life for a (expletive) movie ... it kind of makes me sick. |
I don't want to die in a car accident. When I die it'll be a glorious day. It'll probably be a waterfall. |
I don't want to get into the habit of thinking about my career because when it comes down to it, it's not that important. I could die tomorrow and the world would go on. I don't want to separate myself from the rest of the world. If the world is not going too good, I'm part of that. I'll be happy to take the blame. I'm along for the ride. |
I have a lot of chameleon qualities, I get very absorbed in my surroundings. |
I have twenty personalities on top of the ten I already have. So now I have thirty people in my head! |
I like girls who are natural because I am natural in everything I do. If I meet a girl who is snobby and wants special treatment, she's not going to get it from me because she hasn't earned it. But I've been basically lucky because I've met mostly nice girls - and that's what attracts me. |
I remember we'd roll into gas stations in our beat-up van and I'd tell the attendant, 'I'm going to be an actor! |
I sometimes lie, especially about personal things, because what does it matter? I am a kind of minute commodity, my name is no longer my own. |
I told them I was tired of being in the magazines, and how they made it sound like I love them and want girls so badly to buy them. I'm also doing a photo shoot in a couple of weeks - good honest pictures. They're going to print these pictures anyway, so they might as well be pictures of what I'm really like. |