I like the incongruity of how in Iran, these people we think of as being revolutionaries or fanatics or whatever are just as aware of Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader as our people are back home.

God help me if I ever do another movie with an explosion in it. If you see me in a movie where stuff is exploding you'll know I've lost all my money.

They say money can't buy happiness? Look at the smile on my face. Ear to ear, baby!

There is nothing worse that a thirteen-year-old boy. You're embarrassed by your parents, and you're trying to find your independance because, deep inside, you are so dependent on your mom.

No matter how much you change, you still got to pay the price for the things you’ve done.

All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared.

Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms.

It doesn't matter how you get knocked down in life, because that's going to happen. All that matters is that you gotta get up.

I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger,' and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.

If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd call.

I'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.

He suddenly saw the enterprise of literature as essentially mad.

Us in the graveyard, we wants you to stay alive. We wants you to surprise us and disappoint us and impress us and amaze us.

Your writing should be filled with simple complexities and complex simplicities. Because that is life.

The worst things weren't outside of you.

No matter how remote we feel we are from the oceans, every act each one of us takes in our everyday lives affects our planet's water cycle and in return affects us.

The most effective mirror is definitely an previous good friend.

I've not only pursued the American dream, I've achieved it. I suppose we could say the last few years, I've also achieved the American nightmare.

Write. Publish. Repeat.

John Ventimiglia, who was on 'The Sopranos,' was in my first acting class and we have been friends since that time. Alec Baldwin was in my class back then, Sean Young and Andrew McCarthy.

Golf has made me and shaped me into the person I am here today.