Prior to 'Pirates of the Caribbean' - the first one in 2003 - I had been essentially known within the confines of Hollywood as box office poison, you know what I'm saying? You know, I basically had built a career on 20 years of failures.
Before 'The OC,' I was on track to do some great films... and one thing happens, and then I got this mega-stardom all from this show.
I kind of started 'Game of Thrones' as a really young actor and not a lot on my CV.
When I was starting to get noticed as an actor in the 1970s for something other than the third cowboy on the right who ended up dying in every movie or episode, Burt Reynolds was the biggest star in the world.
Nic Hoult is just such a brilliant actor.
I was in the final running for the Zac Efron role in 'High School Musical.'
'Step Brothers' itself, when I did it, I don't know if I had any idea that it would become a defining moment in my career and life like it has, and I'm really happy that that's the one that ended up being that for me.
Katherine Heigl was a movie star. I thought she was going to be one, and it was fun to watch this young actress getting better every day.
I was Pee-wee Herman for so many years that it wasn't really a question that I didn't want to do other things.
I built my entire career off of teen comedies. I was in 'Bring It On'.
'SNL' is part of my history. I got on the show as a kid. That's the show I got known from.
In 'Billy Madison,' I worked with Adam before anyone really knew he was Adam Sandler.
I was just this kid from Colorado studying theater, and suddenly I was on a hit TV show.
I didn't think I'd be getting my own stand-alone film.
I loved Jennifer Lawrence's performance in 'Winter's Bone.'
One line on a Tom Selleck sitcom does not a career make.
I've been a huge fan of Quvenzhane Wallis since 'Beasts of the Southern Wild.' To me, she's our Shirley Temple, a phenomenal talent, and I wanted to work with her as soon as I saw that movie.
But obviously you don't want to just be the guy who comes in and sort of spices up every movie. So yeah, definitely moving into more of a leading man role would be great, but on my own terms.
'Trading Places' did more for my career than anything I'd ever done. It was a zonking great hit, and it was also just a joy to do.
I was in 'The Outsiders,' which was a good launching pad for me, but 'The Karate Kid' sent me into a different stratosphere.
All I want to do is a rom-com, but you know, people see me as an action person because the first movie that was seen by a lot of the public would be 'Hitman.'
After my first year on 'Gossip Girl,' everybody said, 'You've got to do a big commercial movie, ride this wave.'
'Napoleon Dynamite' blew up my career.
The average person in Hollywood just assumes that if you're on a hit TV show, then that's the first thing you've ever done.
I wanna create a character that's really memorable... like Julia Roberts did in 'Pretty Woman.'
