Certainly coming to America has been extraordinary.

I've had an incredible upbringing, but it was quite chaotic.

I've dated bad girls in my time.

My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

Especially with past experiences, it has made me more wary of things.

It's been an interesting life. I feel like I'm 40 years old at the age of 16.

I didn't have a childhood.

I've been making shoes my whole life.

I've been an assistant to a folklorist and a teacher. There may or may not have been some sandwich-making at a certain sub chain in my past as well.

I grew up a little bit in Germany and then in Switzerland, then in France, the United States and in England, and so it is weird.

I've had my ups and downs in my private life.

I spent the first 18 years of my life in the pastoral town of Vernal, Utah, in the shadows of the Book Cliffs and the Uinta Mountains.

I haven't had too many tragedies in my family where there has been a loss or even an accident. I've been lucky in that sense.

If I see something in somebody, if it's something similar in my shot, I feel like it's the same type of thing in life. People who tell you what to do all the time or have all the answers for you, it's...

Doing a kid's movie is fun when you have kids. You don't want to do kids' movies if you don't have kids. When you have kids, things change in your life.

Over the years, I have been a house painter, farm worker, paste-up artist, Easter Bunny, pizza delivery person, homeless shelter staff member, and counselor for adults and kids with mental illness - I...

Once, as a 12 year-old boy, you've had the experience of seeing your team win the World Series, there is nothing that will ever replace that, or taint that.

I lived that life for real, so to talk about it was like a joke, you know what I mean?

Virtually any practical task becomes chaos within seconds of me getting near it.

My girlfriend and I rented a nice house on the river and I was there for about two and a half months, and we were just out of Alabama. I hardly got to see Alabama.

I grew up in a funeral home. Both my parents were morticians.