• [when asked about what it's like to be a celebrity] I'll tell you when I become one.

• [when asked about what type of girls he likes] I like the dark, mysterious, maybe even gothic type girls. They have to have a good personality, too. I'm very picky.

• I got to grow up in a situation where drugs were demonic. To watch your dad go through heroin withdrawal is something that would keep you from doing any of that yourself.

• I'm not an Adonis, that's for damn sure. I've never really thought of myself that way, and it doesn't matter to me. My favorite actors aren't Adonises. Dustin Hoffman is a flawed-looking man; he's amazing to me. Tom Hanks is flawed-looking; people love him. Same with Gene Hackman.

• I was billed as the ten-year-old kid with the 50-year-old mouth. I knew if I wanted to work in the business, funny would be good because I looked like Garry Shandling.

• Clubs are so lame. Nobody even dances at these clubs. They stand around and get drunk and they schmooze. There is no enjoyment factor. You get so many invites . . . partying has never interested me. My dad was a drug addict. There's something about watching your dad go through heroin withdrawal when you're 11. It's not interesting anymore. I'm not individualizing this. There are lots of kids that deal with this. I'm an '80s baby; that's what was going on.

• [on his co-star Harrison Ford]I've been fortunate enough to work with Harrison on (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the) Crystal Skull, and I can honestly say it is a dream come true. He's a man's man. And he's incredible because he make movies even better, because we love him as much as Indy hates snakes, and because he's captain of the goddamn Millenium Falcon!

• Talent is funny, I've always looked at talent like what the hell does talent really mean? Talent is to actors what luck is to card players. It's not really anything, it's just a fictitious word that people have created and labeled things. Talent is like you know I never really believed in talent, I believed in drive and determination and preparation but talent is sort of like luck. I wouldn't want to think of myself as talented it doesn't seem like there's any validity in that. I like to think of myself as an ordinary man with extra ordinary determination. That's it.

• And I'm not a personality; otherwise I'd be coming out with an album, performing on MTV. All that stuff is possible and I can do that tomorrow. I just have no need.

• And if you're a golfer and you watch a golf film and Matt Damon swing, and it's not great, then you're not going to believe in the golf story, you're not going to believe in the rest of the film. That's the whole movie, so if that swing looks like crap, the movie's crap.

• And yeah, my handicap was down to a 10 when we were at the thick of it. I trained for six or seven months, golfing every day for six hours, seven days a week, with eight trainers. It was intense.

• But this is a little different. This is the adult acting. This is a different crowd. It's more work and more good work. That's it. People will have their opinion regardless.

• I didn't know my dad for a long time. My dad was on drugs and my dad was at the VA Hospital, my dad was off in his own world selling drugs or using them or there would be crack heads in the house or whatever it would be.

• I don't have to live this lavish lifestyle.

• I don't know, I just want to be happy. I could be in a hole somewhere. Or I could completely lose it and be some hippy living in the woods with my dad.

• I hated golf when we first started, but a big part of the training process was falling in love with this sport, so I went on tour with the UCLA Team.

• I think every young actor in Los Angeles went up for that role. It was between Frankie Muniz and me, and he pulled out, so I got the role.

• I think there's a form of honesty, because I used to be very honest with the press, and then it backfired on me, and I understood it.

• I trained more than anybody ever in a golf film ever made - my swing is pretty hot.

• I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.

• I want my audience to know me for my work, not because of who I'm dating or what drugs I'm on or what club I went to.

• I was the only white kid in my neighborhood for most of my youth even in high school, so reverse racism was just as apparent as racism.

• I'm very picky and I'm in a situation where it's a big crossover.

• I've been in fights, but that doesn't make me cool or like a tough guy or more interesting actor, I'm not proud of it.

• If I have enough money to eat I'm good.

• My family, my parents are hippies.

• My neighborhood was rough, but I live a great life now. I don't fight that much now. I don't look for it anyway, but if someone hits your mother, whether you're a star, an accountant, or an astronaut or anything... I mean it's your mother, so I lost my mind.

• No, I come for a hippy lifestyle, it's very open; my parents are both hippies.

• No, I was an unknown when I walked in that room. He didn't know who I was from a fly on the wall.

• Now my dad is with me, traveling with me and a big part of this whole thing is I like to mix it up a little bit, you know. Who gets to take their father on a private jet across the country and stay in first class hotels? So we're enjoying it, but I'd stop if it's not possible.

• Respected, I almost want to be revered, that's what I'm chasing.

• So it's kind of nervous to be in this situation, but at the same time you look at all those actors and the work that they've done, I've been in bigger films than all of them and still kept my integrity and still kept my respect.

• There's never been a parent in my life.

• They're very, uh, you know, I don't come from the suburbs and a jolly, Disney type of lifestyle. I come from something totally different. And they're cool and bare minimum so it's not always a money issue for me.

• We did this two-week boot camp before we filmed the movie. I got to know everybody in the group and we became friends. We got really tight throughout those two weeks.

• When you look at golf films before us they're all - garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can't beat him.

• You can't buy back your respect; you can't buy back your career. You only get one, so I don't want to mess that up.

• You never really meet a human being until you live with them or know them for awhile, so this is my clown and they understand that and so these interviews don't bother them.

• “People think that their vote counts. They go to college, and everything gets mixed up. People stop caring, ... They raise the gas prices, but what the Everyman makes and welfare never seem to keep up. The HMO system is so ridiculous. I'm slightly educated. No one wants to hear what Hilary Duff thinks of the economy.”

• “Matt Damon in 'Bagger Vance' trained for a week,”

• “It's like a mockumentary about how ... penguins started surfing, and how they started the sport.”

• “Like, what do you say? Do you say 'Hey man!' Or would you say 'Hey peng?' Like, to be with Jeff Bridges, first of all, is a trip. Sitting with Jeff Bridges talking about how to be a penguin, it's like insane.”

• “Yeah, I liked Madagascar , but March is more of a help, because this is the first animation done like documentary-style. It's also the first animation where everything's pretty much ad-libbed. All the dialogue's ad-libbed. It's groundbreaking. It's pretty cool.”

• “All these animators are in there, and they go like [gasps], because it's like a new thing, ... It's never been done like that before.”

• “It's kind of a self-help book for the 'hood, if there is such a thing,”

• “A lot of people like to think that golf is a lazy man's sport, ... Or it's a rich man's sport, or it's a sport that they can't be involved in. But they don't know Francis' story, which is why the movie was made in the first place: To bring back this amazing tale so that people could be educated about how interesting it was. When golf used to be a rich man's sport, if you were poor you could not step foot on a course. Francis was a caddy. He grew up across the street from the course, looked up to Harry Vardon (played by Stephen Dillane in the film), this five-time British Open champion — but he was never allowed to play.”

• [Director Bill Paxton] told me to watch 'The Legend of Bagger Vance,' ... I go watch it, and I come back and he goes, 'We are not making 'Bagger Vance.

• “Francis was never supposed to win. It was David versus two Goliaths, ... Francis couldn't even walk on the course unless he was carrying something that belonged to someone else who was employing him. So at night he would run on the course and count steps and measure yardage for the holes. If he played on any other course, he wouldn't have beaten Harry Vardon.”

• “When I first met Josh, I walked into a Disney screening room ... and he's sitting there talking to all these executives, like he's holding court, ... I say 'You've got to be kidding me. Josh, are you even old enough to have chest hair?' And he says 'No, but you should see my back.' He's a funny little kid who would talk you out of your shoes and sell them back to you.”

• “People classify me as a laughy-daffy Disney kid, ... Even Stevens.”

• “I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form,”

• “I turned down a scholarship to Yale, ... The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.”

• I grew up around a lot of aggressive guys. My parents used to take me to AA meetings when I was very young. So I know aggression, I know insanity.

• Clubs are so lame. Nobody even dances at these clubs. They stand around and get drunk and they schmooze. There is no enjoyment factor. You get so many invites . . . partying has never interested me. My dad was a drug addict. There's something about watching your dad go through heroin withdrawal when you're 11. It's not interesting anymore. I'm not individualizing this. There are lots of kids that deal with this. I'm an '80s baby; that's what was going on.

• (When asked about what girls he likes) I like the dark, mysterious, maybe even gothic type girls. They have to have a good personality too! I'm very picky!

• It would be fun to be the Giants' Jeremy Shockey or the Colts' Peyton Manning for a game or two. But I wouldn't permanently want to be anybody but myself.

• (about being accepted to Yale around the same time he landed a role in a Steven Spielberg film) I'd love to go to school and have a normal life, but I don't see any professor at Yale being able to teach me more than Steven Spielberg.

• I used to dirt bike a lot. I can't do that anymore. Can't eat a whole lot of chocolate anymore, either. I can't be in Indiana Jones and be a fatso!

• To be an actor, a true actor, you have to be brokenhearted.

• Acting is more of an art form than an occupation.

• Would I want to win an Oscar before I'm 40? Maybe. Would I want to win one before I'm 25? No.

• (On Being Celebrity) - I'll tell you when I become one.

• I understand why marriages break up over golf. I can't even talk about my own handicap because it's too upsetting.

• (Why he became an actor) Greed. I was poor and it was a way to get out of the hood.

• People think that their vote counts. They go to college, and everything gets mixed up. People stop caring, ... They raise the gas prices, but what the Everyman makes and welfare never seem to keep up. The HMO system is so ridiculous. I'm slightly educated. No one wants to hear what Hilary Duff thinks of the economy.

• You can't buy back your respect; you can't buy back your career. You only get one, so I don't want to mess that up.