"I'm currently doing Undeclared an American TV show set in a college. It just got aired and got massive ratings so hopefully that'll screen in the UK soon."
"I was a little bit wary of playing Nicholas. In the script, which I think is true of the novel and the film, he's the only character not singing and dancing in a musical style. Playing someone who is the personification of good is a little difficult."
"If I'd seen a grown man beating a crippled boy, of course I'd intervene. If my father died and left my mother destitute, it's your instinct to take care of her. So when I started to think about it in those terms, it started to make sense to me."
"It's generally more fun playing the villain."
"I love hip hop music, I make hip hop music."
"No, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs."
"In a work capacity I'm only interested in acting and producing."
"I'm happy being an actor, it's what I have always wanted to do. I'm just lucky I got to do it so early."
"Good roles are hard to come by, and whether they're a few lines or a lead, you snap 'em up when they come along."
"It could be my downfall, but I don't think it is - Hollywood is run on perception, and if you stray off the path of what you want to do with your career, it's suicide."
"I bought a house, and I've been decorating it."
"I'm reading scripts, desperately wanting to work. I've set a couple of things up for next year."
"The truth of the matter is the real industry is in LA and the cream of the talent is there."
"And I just want to work with good directors and good people."
"I find aspects of the industry tedious and hard to manage."
"I watch these actors who when you go to buy a pint of milk you see them smiling on the cover of 20 magazines. Then when you see them in a film it's hard to believe the character because you just see them everywhere."
"So I try not to do press and if you can keep the balance of keeping a certain degree of anonymity and do interesting work then you can hope for a degree of career longevity."
"There are definitely worse people to be compared with. I think Brad Pitt makes interesting decisions."
"In the early part of your career you are always compared with somebody until you can stand on your own two feet."
"I get invited to literally every single movie premiere that's going on."
"If I went to them all dressed up and flashed a nice smile for the cameras it would probably be easier for me to get work. But I just can't tolerate it."
"They say that theater is the actor's medium, television is the writer's medium and film is the director's medium, and it's really true."
"I got expelled from high school, and then did my exams from home. I decided, through that experience, that I was going to expediate my plan and didn't go to university. Instead, I went to a community college and studied the theory and history of film with the idea that I wanted to write and direct."
"Right before I got 'Sons of Anarchy,' I actually quit acting for 18 months and didn't read a single script, and I wrote a film. I felt like I needed to do something that I had control over, as an artist, and also just do something where I felt like I had some control over my life, as just a human, out in the world."
"Being at the mercy of the acting profession, in the early days of one's career, is really brutal and feels like you have no control over your life, at all."
