- "On my first day of shooting (Star Trek), I ended up breaking a stut guys's nose. A word of caution to any young actor out there: Do NOT hurt stuntmen, because they will pay you backk in kind! The next take after that, this big stunt guy kicked me in the stomach. He said it wasn't on purpose, but i don't know. THe fight scenes were alot of fun, but Way harder than I ever expected!" -People June 2, 2009 Hottest Bachelors issue
- On fame: If the worst thing that happens in your life is that you're asked the same question repeatedly for a month, and people look very interested while they're talking to you and wanting to know about you, think about every day you worked at that restaurant and every day you worked as a delivery man for Domino's, every day you were a host, every day you were a bartender and worked until 4 a.m. And then just be very grateful.
- (on his fantasy film roles) If I could’ve been Brando in Streetcar (Named Desire) or Brando in On the Waterfront.
- (on his role in Princess Diaries 2): I am like my character in that, I guess, I like to push buttons a little bit sometimes and maybe I go too far. My sister would certainly say that. But, yeah, I guess there’s a certain… I try to be suave. It doesn’t always work out. Hopefully, I’m not as arrogant.
- (if he believes in luck): Yes sure, I believe in luck and fate and I believe in karma, that the energy you put out in the world comes back to meet you. So if you have positive good energy, hopefully good things will come to you from the universe.
- (on what to do on a first date): I am pretty conventional, I was raised by a strict mother who said, “Be sure to open doors and say please thank you and pull up the chair.” So I would take her for a great dinner with good ambience, low lighting, great food and a good bottle of wine. I like to be inquisitive and ask a lot of questions. I am not an ironic dating guy; I don’t say, “Let’s go bowling.”
- (on his outlook in life): The more you are positive and say “I want to have a good life,” the more you build that reality for yourself; by creating the life that you want. It is not always the case that things will fall into your lap or that life will be great, but it is all about perspective and having a positive outlook. If something goes wrong, you say, “That happened for a reason, what can I learn from that and how can I grow?”
- (on how luck changed his life): Yeah, my career is a great example. I took part in a theatre festival in Massachusetts two summers after I graduated from college. Then I was in Los Angeles thinking, “I am going to go to New York.” I had decided that I would not have a chance of a film career, so I was about to make the move. I bought a plane ticket and found a place to live in New York, packed my bags and of course the universe ‘told me’ that I was not meant to go. Suddenly a week before I was supposed to leave, I had three job offers and one of them was my first movie. I think that when you let go and ‘throw it all away’ and stop getting attached and say “whatever happens, happens”, you don’t invest too much in anything particular, and things work out. As an actor, it is easy to be so self-critical, saying to yourself, “Am I good enough? Am I good looking enough? Am I smart enough?” Yet here I am, so I am lucky.
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