"This was basically the first time I got to act in action scenes, with things blowing up all around me. It sounds corny, but I think every actor would like to - at least once in his or her career - play the person who saves the entire world."

"Balancing my film career and my music will be something I'm just going to have to deal with, as it happens. I think I can balance it out; the choices will probably be pretty clear. If there's a movie I just have to do, I will work the music around it."

"In choosing any role, I ask the same questions: what kind of part is it? is the role challenging? does the director have a vision? is the story moving? etc."

"Material Girls was so different for me, I'd never done a teen movie."

"I'm at that great level where fans will stop and say 'hi,' which I love, but the paparazzi don't care, which is incredible."

"The more you worry, the more you throw off the delicate balance of hormones required for health."

"One is never ready for success. It consecrates and looses you at the same time."

"Jon Stewart is exactly the same guy he's always been, only with money. He knows that the moment he really believes he's important, the funny goes away and he becomes Bill O'Reilly, except shorter and Jewish."