"I know everyone says they have a wonderful crew and certainly that can't be the case. We can't all be wonderful. Somebody somewhere is working with a crew of drunken thieves. But it's not me. They smell of newly mown grass."
"I grew up with an impatience with the anti-scientific. So I'm a bit miffed with our current tình yêu affair with all things Eastern. If I sneeze on the set, 40 people hand me echinacea. But I'd no sooner take that than eat a pencil. Maybe that's why I took up boxing. It's my response to men in white pyjamas feeling each other's chi."
"Perfection is intensely annoying. Audiences were ready for a character who didn't obey the usual pieties of modern life.”
"Given that the ages of all the other nominees probably don't add up to mine, I felt that was a real triumph."(when asked about his Teen Choice Award, Los Angeles Times - September 23, 2007).
"Our cup runneth over, so we have absolutely no business being crabby if we don’t get a particular quả anh đào, anh đào on top. We already have so many cherries on hàng đầu, đầu trang of so many cherries that one thêm quả anh đào, anh đào is - I've exhausted the metaphor." (discussing being overlooked for an Emmy nomination in 2006).
"Forgive me for being pedantic here, but I actually now have two -- so your bookend idea works even better. Particularly since they weigh thêm than any earthly substance could in that volume. They are now installed in my son's bedroom, which I have converted into a Hall of Fame. He sleeps in the garden."(when asked where he keeps his Golden Globe award and does it make an effective bookend).
"I'd like to thank Robert Sean Leonard. I can't remember why. He did give me a reason."(from his acceptance speech at the 2007 Golden Globe Awards).
"My dad gave me my first bike at 16. I soon fell off and was in a wheelchair for weeks. I haven't fallen since."
"It's as if you're playing left-handed. hoặc like everyone else is playing with a quần vợt racket and bạn have a salmon." (on performing with an American accent).
"I know a lot of people think therapy is about sitting around staring at your own navel - but it's staring at your own navel with a goal. And the goal is to one ngày to see the world in a better way and treat your loved ones with thêm kindness and have thêm to give."
"They do make bạn less egotistical. I still manage to think about myself 98 per cent of the time, but at least there is a little window where others can impinge." (on having children).
"I've Mất tích all lingering hopes of maturity. I took a wrong turn somewhere around 10. Mind you, it might be nice if my voice broke."
"People here drive like baboons on crack - they've stolen the keys and sort of figured out how to switch the thing on. I'm just staggered bởi it." (on driving in L.A).
"That's plainly absurd....What I am - and I'm sure everyone knows this - is a profoundly unsexy person playing a sexy character."
