"To me, the 90's signaled the end of glam rock, the beginning of gangsta rap, and hopefully the beginning and end of boy bands."

 

 

 

"Right now, my favorite game is Resident Evil 2."

 

 

 

"I met some friends in the end of 10th, beginning of 11th, who were in the popular group so I finished off high school in that group and got to see both sides."

 

 

 

"Sexy, to me, doesn't have anything to do with beautiful."

 

 

 

"Because I could take this as an opportunity to create something that I pretty much guarantee nobody else was going to create in film."

 

 

 

"We are meeting with Sony, and we have a couple of other labels that suddenly have interest and that's really great because none of them have actually heard our stuff."

 

 

 

"I had never really fired guns before, so this was all very new to me."

 

 

 

"I'm not giving up acting, I'm definitely not going to stop."

 

 

 

"I used to comb my hair back and do stupid stuff."

 

 

 

"I found out some really cool ways to swing around the Winchester."

 

 

 

"Sexy is kind of like an aura around someone."

 

 

 

"I usually think in terms of music."

 

 

 

"What I got out of it was a great experience working with great people and it becoming a tremendous - basically - a family at the end that none of us wanted to leave."

 

 

 

"I've never had a day job. I've been very fortunate."

 

 

 

"But, it is hard too, because I want to do another action film. Believe it or not, it was fun."

 

 

 

"But it's cool to be noticed for the smallest part of that."

 

 

 

"When what's around you - such as scripts, or like me being on the show and playing 18, now me doing this film playing 18 - it's kind of been what's been there for me."

 

 

 

"By my senior year in high school, I was friends with every group."

 

 

 

"He's a guy's guy, so it pretty much became like the impressions - don't imitate Sean Connery's voice, and things like that. We were all kind of doing it towards the end of the film, anyway, and he was cool with it."

 

 

 

"I'm 25, but I was a kid on the set. But everybody was really great."

 

 

 

"Girls started noticing me a little bit more in senior year, and junior year, and that was weird."

 

 

 

"I've always been a big fan of Bill Paxton, and I met him at the American Pie premiere."

 

 

 

"Because A Walk To Remember had come out and it had made money and I got a lot of congratulations at that time as it happens out there."

 

 

 

"I'm going to do my best to do both and die of an ulcer at age 30."

 

 

 

"At the same time, reading an action script... It makes me wonder. Was The Matrix a good script? I don't know."

 

 

 

"Eli and I are kinda similar because my parents went through a divorce as well. When it hit at 13, I felt like I had to be the man of the house and take care of my mom and sister and that's basically how Eli feels."
- Talking about Eli from "Once and Again"

 

 

 

"I'd be a musician. My best friend and I have a band, Average Jo. Our sound is pop-punk, sorta like Green Day."
- When asked what he would do if he wasn't an actor

 

 

 

"Since I'm a Gemini, I'm kinda schizo, but I'm fun and outgoing. I'm always the one who's trying to get everybody to feel OK. You know, 'Do you need anything?' I'm a good host."
- When asked about his astro-attitude

 

 

 

"From seventh to tenth grade I was very introverted. I had my two friends and my hair was combed to the side...I was a total dork. I hadn't come into my own yet and I wasn't confident."
- When asked about his popularity

 

 

 

"You know that's a bunch of crap."
- Talking about how beautiful movie stars says they were unpopular in high school.

 

 

 

"Yeah, I was popular. I was part of the clinque."
- He admits this (but only in his junior and senior year)

 

 

 

"At least you know who your real friends are."
- He explains why he chose "dorkness" over popularity

 

 

 

"This popular junior girl got a crush on me at the end of tenth grade. Then things changed. I ended up being in the popular group, but as soon as summer hit, I realized that it was the wrong crowd for me."
- explaining how he got popular

 

 

 

"To be honest, what I’d be more passionate about at this second would be music simply because I’m doing what I love which is acting right now."

 

 

 

"So having that background and doing three years of a divorced family, it wasn’t hard, it was more like therapy."

 

 

 

"Sexy, to me, has everything to do with how one speaks, how someone holds themselves, their smile, and how they treat people."

 

 

 

"My character is just going down and down, and something big is going to happen that’s going to bring us all back up."

 

 

 

"It’s eight days per show. I could work two days in an episode and the rest of those days, I’m practicing or playing a gig."

 

 

 

"I’m very cynical myself."

 

 

 

"I’m also 25, so I was very fortunate to book the films that I did so I can try to get out of that, because you don’t want to become stuck."

 

 

 

"I sing and play the guitar."

 

 

 

"I graduated in 1996."

 

 

 

"I didn't have abandonment issues but he’s a little bit more like me because Eli is a little bit more self-destructive and I’m not exactly that way."

 

 

 

"I basically went in a little early to Prague and on the days that we were shooting and I wasn’t involved, I learned how to use two six shooters and a rifle, a Winchester rifle."

 

 

 

"High school was mainly me asking the counselors and teachers if I could leave to audition, but not booking anything."

 

 

 

"Captain Nemo’s car, which just looks amazing… we always thought it made the Batmobile look kind of silly because this thing was just extraordinary – no pun intended."

 

 

 

"But I understand where the pop music industry comes from because with that, that helps things be more radio playable."

 

 

 

(On girls) ”The first thing I notice is their eyes and smile. I’m not a big make-up fan; I like them to be natural.”

 

 

 

(On moving when he was younger) ”My sister and I were the only white people in school. It was the nicest group of kids I’ve ever run into.”

 

 

 

“While watching the New Orleans Saints (on television), I got angry and punched my bed, and then my remote control flew up and hit me in the head. My girlfriend didn’t stop laughing for an hour.”