About the “1986-2004″ tattoo on his right wrist
“I feel like my childhood was kind of lost. It was adulthood right away. I feel like you forget a lot of your childhood so I put the timeline on my wrist. I just don’t want
to forget the childhood I did have.”

About his past relationship with his Dad and family
“I got to grow up in a situation where drugs were demonic. To watch your dad go through heroine withdrawals is something that would stray you from doing any of that. It
started with him smoking cigarettes and weed and it all led into that. He also grew up in a different time. Hollywood was a different time and the world was a different
time where they’d literally line up coke lines at the craft service table for grips. He didn’t come back [into my life] until Even Stevens happened. He needed a job and I
needed a parent in my life, so this was his occupation. ‘Hey, dad, come be a dad again, here’s $800 a week.’ That’s how we started and created a rapport. You’re with
somebody for three years every day, I had never had an everyday dad like that. The money kept him around and after that came this relationship. But for the first year I can
imagine he was there for an occupation, but after that we created the relationship. This business has been more about giving me the roles and the people I meet, but it gave
me stability in my family.”

About declining Yale University
“I got in [to Yale], and I haven’t gone. I mean, I wanted to go, because it’s just insane. I don’t know if I can fit in there, what it would be, but when you pick colleges,
why not go for the best? You’d be insane not to try. But, I don’t know, I don’t know. I haven’t been to New Haven. I don’t know what living there would be like. I haven’t
really researched it. I just know that I sent an application, they sent me back a letter.”

About his early career as stand-up comedian
“I was billed as the 10-year-old kid with the 50-year-old mouth. I knew if I wanted to work in the business, funny would be good because I looked like Garry Shandling.”

About his education
“I went to Hamilton High School intermittently. But most of the time I was taught by tutors. That’s why I am so envious of kids who get to go to college. I got accepted at
Yale but never went. Opportunity arose so quickly [as an actor]. I remember asking John Turturro [if I should go to Yale]. He said, ‘You have all the opportunities now. You
can go to college when you are 30 or 40. Wait until the pause comes — don’t force the pause.’”

About leaving Disney
“Disney is great, it’s been great to me and many other actors, it’s a great place to cultivate your skills. But it can be debilitating because it’s very one-notey, it
doesn’t stray, its goal is to create children-friendly entertainment. And a lot of 20-year-olds don’t live children-friendly lives. So I didn’t wanna just stay in that
thing.”

About filming Transformers
“It was crazy. The way [Michael] Bay works, he goes to such lengths to put his actors in situations that are dangerous [to get] their response. You can easily go to green
screen and fake me being on the Orpheum Theatre [in Los Angeles] blowing the roof up and hanging by one hand while my feet are on fire. But he actually took us to the
Orpheum Theatre, blew it up and lit my feet on fire. You show up to the set and the work’s done for you. You just have to respond.”

About the Hollywood stardom syndrome
“I know what happens to young successful people in Hollywood. These people get lost. They start believing their own press. They don’t realize that the party scene isn’t
real. It’s all fake stuff and you can’t take it seriously. It’s one long dream sequence, and I have no intention of getting lost in a dream. I am very serious about my
career, and I understand that you can’t take it for granted. One day you’re a movie star, and if you’re not careful, the next day you could be a train conductor.”

About working with Harrison Ford
“I’ve been fortunate enough to work with Harrison on (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the) Crystal Skull, and I can honestly say it is a dream come true. He’s a man’s man.
And he’s incredible because he make movies even better, because we love him as much as Indy hates snakes, and because he’s captain of the goddamn Millenium Falcon!”