"I'm a country boy."
"I was something of a prankster. One time I put a ski mask on my head and used a fake gun on the school secretary so that I could get some of my friends out of detention."
"I always felt like something of an outsider. But I identified with people up on the screen. That made me feel like I wanted to be up on the screen too. I felt like eventually I would get there."
"It's hard and sometimes it's scary. It still amazes my mother. I went home for Christmas one year and there were fans all over the front lawn, hoping to see me."
"I've had tons of odd jobs, but I think that I would probably be a fireman because you get to see the results of your job. You get there and there is a house on fire. You leave and there's not a fire anymore."
"I have a girlfriend, but I don't really want to talk about her. I won't name her. She isn't in show business, has nothing to do with it. So I'd rather just keep her out of it."
"I think that sometimes kids use the show as a jumping off point for talking about things with their parents."
"It was a fun film. I had a great time doing it. I was looking for a role just like that for my first movie role. I didn't want to have a starring role, because I wanted a chance to learn. I didn't want the whole thing riding on me."
"I open to anything... just about anything."
"Growing up in the Midwest, people don't drive Porsches and Ferraris. They drive Fords and Chevys. And so even if you have the opportunity to buy a more expensive car, it doesn't occur to you because it's not what you relate to."
"I go four- wheeling in my truck. I also like to fish, cook, do stuff around my house. I even studied fencing for awhile."
"My high school was nothing like West Beverly High, let me tell you. I grew up in Fredericktown, Ohio."
"When I was a kid, I was at a bowling alley and I ran into a soda machine. I still have the scar on my right eyebrow obviously."
"I knew that I was going to do Westerns. I like 'em."
"There's a big difference between me and a real, legitimate working hand, or a world-champion rodeo cowboy. I play 'em, and I aspire to be like that, but those guys are tough."
"When I was a kid, I just devoured TV 24 hours a day. Now that it's actually available 24 hours a day, I'm usually busy doing other stuff. But I do watch TV when I can."
"Why doesn't Apple stop for a year and make medical devices? When people talk about technology, that's where I start to get a little hot under the collar because I know that it's the key to solving some of the world's biggest problems. Having a faster, thinner telephone is not one of the world's biggest problems."
"I don't think what I have to say is that important."
"I'm not much of a matchmaker. I think people have to make their own choices and mistakes and all that stuff."
"The role model thing gets imposed on you by someone else. I don't think that's fair."
"At one point or another, everybody gets called 'the new James Dean.'"
"I'm not worried about being a big star."
"I'm not James Dean. And no one else is, either."
"I don't think that's a fair representation of life, that you have to go to college and do well to get anywhere."
"So many people could save a life if they just go and have a colonoscopy, but you've got to do something about that."
