“I walked into an audition once and everybody looked like me, blond hair, blue-eyed white person. It showed me that there were a million other people like me out there, but it was good.”

“Angelina Jolie is my celebrity crush… and I know you all understand.”

“All I ever wanted was a classic car, the Thunderbird is really like my little beauty. You can cut somebody off at like 50 mph, and they’ve be like ‘Yes! Nice car!’”

“It came down to me against Dominique Swain, a really wonderful, beautiful and talented actress with more experience. I took one look at her and thought, ‘Why am I even here?’”

“I’m still getting used to recognition for my work. A couple of months ago, I spoke – along with the great actress CCH Pounder – in a film class taught by a friend at the University of California at San Diego. We represented the two sides of acting, the new and the veteran. Pounder was held up as a classic example; I was introduced as an example of what’s not supposed to happen in Hollywood… Nobody should follow my example.”

“But even if I’m left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.”

“I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.”

“I was a handful growing up.”

“Now I’m doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan.”

“Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.”

“When you choose to be an actor, you are going against the odds.”