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Vampires to me have always been very sexy.
Yes, I definitely plan to direct at some point.
But, I didn't get my first break until I was 17.
I wouldn't want to do a whole movie with effects.
You have to feel the bad to be able to feel the good.
Living at the beach, it's hard to get out of the sun.
I want to make a movie where people are, like, 'Whoa.'
Being an actor is pretty much like being in the circus.
I play guitar and I love the Beatles and melodic music.
I started acting before that when I was about 13 or 14.
I don't want to just be in the normal kind of teen movie.
I've never really dated actresses except when I was really young.
I liked getting the best villain award. I thought that was funny.
I've read some scripts, but I don't read as many books as I should.
I'm always feeling like I have to do some bad action movie for money.
It used to be you did TV or you did film. Now it's like a media blitz.
I would have wanted my mom to see me settle down and to be a grandma to my kids.
I'm used to having big movie cameras in my face; I pretend that they're not there.
My first manager was this lady named Booh Schut. She actually worked with me on my auditions.
I don't think Jack Nicholson has ever called me Stephen. He's like, 'Hey, Dorff. How are ya?'
In a movie script, you know what the moments are that you really have to hit it out of the park.
I used to play around and sing Randy Travis for my dad. I'd always be able to just mimic things.
I've mainly been in dramas, so this is one of my first comedy kind of performances in Cecil B. Demented.
My mom always wanted me to do movies where I played, whether I had flaws or not, guys that had a good heart.
I have a smaller bottom lip, but in 'Wheeler,' I had a lip over my lip. It's fat, and it helped with my accent.
I've always played different kinds of roles, and I probably played more vulnerable parts when I was really young.
I find that dialogue is bad in most scripts. I just think there are very few writers that can capture the natural way people talk.
There's a lot of idiots in Hollywood, a lot of people with no imagination, so as an actor you have to constantly re-show them what you can do.
That's the danger of having too much success. You lose that magic, that feeling of not being in control, which I feel now, it's too controlled.
I'm used to having big movie cameras in my face, I pretend that they're not there. But I actually like being on my own, I like being in the space.
I think acting is only one part of the piece of the movie. I'ts an important piece, but I'd like to be involved in all the other aspects of making movies.
I've always found, when I was younger, that the older guys - the guys who weren't of my generation but were 20, 30 years older than me - were the cool guys.
In my early 20s, I was buying Kristofferson records. I loved his acting; then I found out all the songs he wrote. I loved the Highwaymen. I collected all that stuff.
I was thrown into the fashion world, dating models - and you'd read about me dating a new starlet every month. That's just where my life was. But I've grown up a lot.
Nuclear arms is pretty scary because that could end the world. I'm more interested in that stuff than I am Bill Clinton. I mean, I think Bill Clinton is a good president.
I guess what I learned the most was to feel lucky with what I have been able to accomplish and what I have and to feel humble about the people I have been able to work with.
I pretty much lived movie to movie in my younger years because I loved spending money, and I didn't really have a concept of 'assets,' but as I got a little older, I bought art.
I remember I once had a meeting with Sydney Pollack and the playwright Tom Stoppard, and they thought I was English. I said, 'I'm just from the Valley!' Just from the San Fernando Valley!
It was pretty surreal to be auditioning as a kid, and I'd get close to these actors that I really respected. I remember River Phoenix in particular. I met him at an audition hall or something.
I got a lion on my back because I'm a Leo, and I also just love lions. But I wish I'd researched the artwork a little more. My little sister saw it and said, "Why do you have the Lion King on your back?"
They're trying to beat out this movie, the Ring, which is a similar idea. Our movie is about a website you visit and die in three days. Their movie is about a videotape you watch - and die in three days.
I've always found, when I was younger, that the older guys - the guys who weren't of my generation but were 20, 30 years older than me - were the cool guys. I always wanted to be around adults when I was young.
I moved to L.A. when I was, like, 6 months old. I was born in Georgia 'cause my dad was going to college at the University of Georgia for music. Then we moved to the Valley, and my dad was a songwriter out here.
I think that when I was younger and had my first round of big success and was plastered on magazine covers in the early and mid-'90s, I was kind of outspoken and had kind of a pretty aggressive attitude in my life.
Basically, at some point, one day maybe you can expect to hear some of my music. I haven't really done that yet because my younger brother is a musician and really talented and I want him to come out with his music first.
When I played Candy Darling in 'I Shot Andy Warhol,' that was easy to play that part. They made me into a woman: I'm in heels; I'm waxed. I'm gonna find the femininity and lay on the bed and take the voice of an old movie star.
A girl I fall in love with will not have been like I was. I would like the girl who's had serious boyfriends, with maybe a wild phase where she had a couple one-night stands and that was that. Not the one who went for it like I did.