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I don't even get an allowance.
Math is one of my favorite subjects.
I hope people don't think I'm crazy, because I'm not.
I had all the fame anyone could want, and I ran away from it.
I've always said that acting found me. I didn't really find it.
A lot of people meet me and they're like, 'Why aren't you crazy?'
All the child-star cliches, I've tried very hard to avoid them all.
All the child-star clichés. I've tried very hard to avoid them all.
I'd made enough money by the time I was 12 to never have to work again.
Acting found me. I thought maybe I should try to find it again. We'll see.
I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.
It's a place where I could do something on a weekly basis and see if I like it.
Gosh, I couldn't even talk right until I was about 6 years old or something like that.
I'm not one of those people who needs that gratification of doing, like, 10 films a year.
It took me ten minutes to write this very sentence. I'm no writer. This is not my calling.
The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
I've led a very isolated existence since I was 6 years old. It's kind of been me and my mind.
I can go to any restaurant without a reservation, but while I'm there, everyone's gonna be staring.
I lead a simple life. I feed the fish. I walk the dogs. I cook dinner. Occasionally I take a meeting.
I have a lot of growing up to do, or a lot of growing down. I think that's probably more appropriate.
I'm the most out-of-work actor I know. In the last two years I've basically taken meetings for a living.
After seeing 'Big,' I wanted an elevator that opened directly into my apartment, just like Tom Hanks did.
It drives me crazy when your parents try to read your mind. It's even worse when they try to read your mail.
I'd made enough made money by the time I was 12 to never work again, so it's not about a big pay check with me.
It's about finding unique, one-of-a-kind films that I would want to see myself. I think Party Monster is one of those.
It's about finding unique, one-of-a-kind films that I would want to see myself. I think 'Party Monster' is one of those.
I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.
Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.
Michael Jackson and I talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most people can't understand either of us.
I hope I'm remembered as the king of the world, the noble man who united all the nations of the earth. But that probably won't happen.
I did a radio interview for a station in Connecticut or something, and it was the worst interview ever. It was all yes and no answers.
I'm not expecting the American literary community to welcome me with open arms. To them I'm just some schmuck kid who wrote some book.
Because of what I did when I was 10 years old, I'm not living from paycheck to paycheck, and I can do things because I want to do them.
Most of the offers I get from Hollywood are for teen comedies. My manager thinks I'm crazy for turning down all that money, but I'm very picky.
I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my age, and I didn't really have friends. I had a million acquaintances and no friends.
I'm doing naughty things, I'm drinking too much, I'm going to clubs. It really didn't matter to me, other than the fact that some parents wouldn't let their kids hang out with me.
I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but I don't want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx it.
People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.
People still recognize me all the time on the street. The first thing they say when they stop me is, "Where have you been?" The second comment they make is always, "Oh, you've grown up."
People still recognize me all the time on the street. The first thing they say when they stop me is, 'Where have you been?' The second comment they make is always, 'Oh, you've grown up.'
I try not to label myself anything, really, but you know, I'm definitely an indoorsy person, and I definitely kind of just try to, you know, stay away from life in the public eye, at least.
I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn't want that for myself. Like I said, when I was 14 years old, I decided to quit. I didn't ever want to do it again.
I remember sitting one time doing 100 interviews in a day, and they're all television interviews and they're kind of - and you just sit there and they bring these people in and out, and in out.
I'm not one of those actors who needs the media spotlight all the time to feel gratified. I'm happy to do one project a year and take the rest of the year off as long as that project is special.
I enjoy my life. I think I have a very good life. And I think I'm very satisfied with the direction of my career and just my lifestyle and everything like that. So I wouldn't change a single thing.
I get carded for soda, you know, when I go to the supermarket. I mean, they card me for everything. You know, I can't even get through a hand of black jack without getting carded, like, five times.
They put it on the page because it sounded good or it looked good or they read it in a book somewhere that this is how you structure a script or something, and they just don't get it. It's surprising.
As a senior in high school, you figure out what you want to do with your life. I asked myself if I wanted to get back into acting and thought: 'Yes, but under my own terms and nothing like it was before.'
It's like, I don't think you understand, Michael Jackson's bedroom is two stories and it has, like, three bathrooms and this and that. So, when I slept in his bedroom, yes, but you understand the whole scenario.
Much like anyone with too much time on his or her hands, I feel as though I am the most important person on earth and everything I do is relevant. I say the most charming and inspired things when no one is around.