I was nicknamed 'Skeeter' in Little League because I was small and fast, like a mosquito flying across the outfield.
Movies don't create psychos. Movies make psychos more creative.
I think Im extremely vulnerable and that in some ways I seek out rejection. Never feeling like youre getting that pat on the back from dad is probably at the heart of that. Im working through it, which is good. As an actor, I think that you want to keep your demons to some extent, but you also have to exorcise them so you can use them instead of them using you.
I think when someone becomes an actor, people say, Aw, you could see it in him when he was little. But I think you can see that quality in every little kid.
Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die.
I didn't even go to my prom. I didn't have one date in high school.
Because of the need to remove all modernism, we stayed in the middle of nowhere all day long, living out of tents. It was cold. It definitely set the scene.
As an actor, you want to keep your demons to some extent, but you also have to exorcise them so you can use them instead of them using you.
I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina.
The more you understand me, the less characters I can play.
I'm not the most talkative guy in the world.
Whatever labels are being pinned on me have nothing to do with me.
My problem with interviews, one day I'll think one thing, and the next day I'll think the exact opposite.
Ultimately, it's a pretty confusing moment.
As a kid I used to pretend I was John Denver, of all people, and play the guitar and sing Take Me Home, Country Roads.
There's been a boiling down of real emotion into a set pattern instead of individualism.
I think people could justify labeling me if they saw a pattern in what I do, but right now that's impossible.
I'm an actor, coming from New York theater.
I feel like I want to crawl out of my skin, especially when people start questioning me.
I've just done a movie - Albino Alligator - with Viggo Mortensen, who's an actor I idolize. He influenced me in a way that has helped me move toward getting lead parts instead of supporting parts, merely through his presence. So now I tell everyone, as a joke, that I'm entering my Viggo Mortensen phase.
The whole Indian thing, I always say it's really the American holocaust. It's something we need to look at.
Everyone's really lazy in L.A.
I scored a 910 on my SAT. I didn't care about education. I don't know what I cared about.
There's a lot of reasons you can think of to say why you act, but I can only say that it just felt good. At the same time, it felt really painful. It's still troubling and stressful to me.
I don't use the techniques I learned at NYU much anymore.
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