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

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

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.

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.

All aesthetic judgment is really cultural evaluation.

Just for the record the weather today is slightly sarcastic, with a good chance of A. indifference and B. disinterest in what the critics say.

Freud is all nonsense

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

That level of expectation that I'm going to be conservative is really disappointing, but it is how many people think about clergy and the church

Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.

'One Night Only,' the words I'll be hearing from my agents when I tell them I'm coming back to Broadway.

More people now work in the arts than the steel, coal and car industries combined.

We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.

I guess people wonder if I'm the same on camera as I am off, and I'm pretty much the same, I really am. But that's always asked of me.