Quotes

My best jokes are so cheap. All I do is say things sarcastically.

Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.

If I don't direct a movie at some point, I've failed personally.

It helps if you don't date other actors, but actresses are beautiful. How can you say no?

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 like an interesting movie even if it's controversial or offensive, depending on your taste.

Transitioning to being an unemployed film actor is different, but it's fun and I've been looking forward to it for a while.

I have a pretty lousy voice.

I just want to be in good things that I want to see, and I want to work with talented people who are smarter than myself.

Really, as long as I am working and have diversity, I am happy.

I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain age, he was probably a part of your youth. I think that's pretty cool.

I have been in teen shows for years, so doing that stuff - kissing - is kind of commonplace and not a big deal. It was way more cool just because it was Meg Ryan.

I like to always have humour in whatever I do.

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.

I wish I came from a more pure place. I don't have something to say from the bottom of my soul. I just know how to take stuff I like and repackage it in a slightly different way.

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

I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.

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.

It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting.

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.

It was just really odd to be in a room with Ian McKellen sharing cucumber sandwiches.

You kind of forget he's Peter Jackson in a way because he's so normal; he's lovely. It's like having a friend direct you, except it's Peter Jackson.

My first film is coming out, and it's in 3D, and it's 'The Hobbit,' so it's a bit weird.

As a first movie, 'The Hobbit' is not a bad place to start.

My first car was a motorcycle.