We did this two-week boot camp before we filmed the movie. I got to know everybody in the group and we became friends. We got really tight throughout those two weeks.
I grew up around a lot of aggressive guys. My parents used to take me to AA meetings when I was very young. So I know aggression, I know insanity.
I hated golf when we first started, but a big part of the training process was falling in love with this sport, so I went on tour with the UCLA Team.
I drink protein shakes nonstop - three or four a day - and I run a lot, so you get rid of the bad carbs and keep the rest so you have the energy to make it through.
Sometimes I feel I'm living a meaningless life, and I get frightened.
I was the only white kid in my neighborhood for most of my youth even in high school, so reverse racism was just as apparent as racism.
I didn't know my dad for a long time. My dad was on drugs and my dad was at the VA Hospital, my dad was off in his own world selling drugs or using them or there would be crack heads in the house or whatever it would be.
And I'm not a personality; otherwise I'd be coming out with an album, performing on MTV. All that stuff is possible and I can do that tomorrow. I just have no need.
I come from divorce. I'm only doing marriage once. It's not a game for me.
The best movies are simple.
I am trying to impress myself. I have yet to do it.
I'm trying to find a way to eat up time without being destructive, 'cause that's my go-to, it seems.
I've learned a great deal about a certain type of filmmaking. But I have ambitions toward another type of filmmaking that I haven't been allowed to engage in yet.
No, I come for a hippy lifestyle, it's very open; my parents are both hippies.
I'm kind of bi-polar.
I understand why marriages break up over golf. I can't even talk about my own handicap because it's too upsetting.
The big thing for actors is the level of commitment.
I wasn't cocky, just confident; I went to an all black school, a white kid.
My mom is the backbone not just of my family but of many families.
As an actor, the minute you start getting real in interviews, you lose mystery.
What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.
When you're working with the best of the best, I'm not gonna put that on hold so I can work with people who studied the best of the best.
Everybody's got stories. I don't want to not have stories.
I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.
There's a form of selling out. It's necessary. You have to become edible for people in Texas. You have to become edible for the Christian right, for mass audiences.
I don't have to live this lavish lifestyle.
When a gust of wind hits a broken bone, you feel it.
Agents are used to the parents pimping. They're not used to the kid pimping.
I'm not a star, I'm an actor.
If I could meet my mother and marry her, I would. I would be with my mother now, if she weren't my mother, as sick as that sounds.
I'm a call-sheet junkie. I love being on set. So, the hardest thing for me is dealing with all this idle time. That's when I get into trouble.
When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints.
I used to dirt bike a lot. I can't do that anymore. Can't eat a whole lot of chocolate anymore, either. I can't be in 'Indiana Jones' and be a fatso!
I think I'm prone to not being a good guy in relationships.
Well, you don't make any demands to Steven Spielberg.
So it's kind of nervous to be in this situation, but at the same time you look at all those actors and the work that they've done, I've been in bigger films than all of them and still kept my integrity and still kept my respect.
And if you're a golfer and you watch a golf film and Matt Damon swing, and it's not great, then you're not going to believe in the golf story, you're not going to believe in the rest of the film. That's the whole movie, so if that swing looks like crap, the movie's crap.
I would like to be George Clooney diplomatic. I just don't have the wherewithal yet or the inner serenity.
I feel like I'm really honest in my interviews, to a fault. I've lost friends over it. Major friends. And I'm heartbroken about that.
I don't have many actor friends.
I got accepted at Yale but never went.
I'm not an Adonis, that's for damn sure. I've never really thought of myself that way, and it doesn't matter to me. My favorite actors aren't Adonises. Dustin Hoffman is a flawed-looking man; he's amazing to me. Tom Hanks is flawed-looking; people love him. Same with Gene Hackman.
I got kicked out of every school I ever went to.
I never get in trouble.
Look, you're on the set for six months, with someone who's rooting to be attracted to you, and you're rooting to be attracted to them. I never understood the separation of work and life in that situation. But the time I spent with Megan was our own thing.
Actors live dependent on being validated by other people's opinions. I don't understand what it is I do that people want. I don't know what an actor does. I have no credentials. I don't know what I'm doing.
I've had to deal with all different types of situations - positive and negative and extremes of both.
I think, my generation, it's hard to have hope when you got a $700-trillion derivatives debt to pay and a bubble about to explode and $500 trillion worth of GDP.
I'm just selfish. I have to be for what I do.
