Remember To Be As Smart As You

[john] Hughes Was Well Aware That To Ignore The Seriousness Of Young People Is To Encourage Things Like Columbine, So You Might Want To Listen. And We Were All Pretty Serious, A Little Bit, In High School. Some A Little More Than Others.

Heroes Always Make The Right Decision; I Find That Seldom Happens In My Life.

It's More Like The Inner Workings Of John Bender. He Feels Like He's Been Given A Short Shrift, He's Not Been Provided The Opportunities That Maybe These Other Kids Have. So He Feels Like He Begins In A Hole. And Instead Of Trying To Raise Himself Up, He Wants To Bring All Of Them Down. That's A Dynamic That's Pretty Universal. And So That Was The Real Foothold On That. It Wasn't Like, "oh, My High School Experience Is Like John Bender's [in St. Elmo's Fire]."

I Don't Have Any Blindness When It Comes To My Money. As An Actor, You Can Get Distracted By Your Work. I Do Keep An Eye On My Nest Egg, If You Will.

You Have To Kind Of Roll With The Punches. That's Why I Think Work Begets Work To A Certain Degree. I Just Try And Keep Busy.