- People always say that they see me as the laid-back, surfer, stoner type... I guess it's just being from Texas, and talking in a deliberate - I would say thoughtful - way, but other people would say it's slow. Maybe I'm a victim of my hair color.
- You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.
- Acting is more fun than writing. Writing is harder, more like having a term paper.
- I can't think of a movie I wish I'd acted in, but there are movies I wish I'd written.
- I think the way it works is that when you're casting a movie, you usually want to work with people that you believe in.
- I think of somebody like Gene Hackman, who's been in lots of stuff, who doesn't really change his appearance or voice too much, so it's kind of inspiring. Maybe I could do stuff like that, make it believable for myself while still dealing with my limitations.
- I think there is a middle-child syndrome. I don't know quite what it is, but I think I suffer from it.
- The way some people are good at figuring out equations in algebra, I like to think I'm good at figuring out why characters behave the way they do. I like the ones who are slightly cracked.
- Wilson on working with Jackie Chan in "Shanghai Noon": "I decided if Jackie was doing all his own stunts, I wanted to be known as the actor who never did any."
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