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Interests and Activities

Acting, Basketball, Cycling, Directing, Drums, Golf, Guitar, History, Kite Surfing, Motocross, Paintballing, Painting, Piano, Producing, Screenwriting, Singing, Skateboarding, Skydiving, Surfing, Wrestling.

Favorite TV Shows

Entourage, Dexter, Heroes, and Saturday Night Live

Favorite Movies

Top 10:

Jurassic Park

The Dark Knight

Disturbia

American History X

Fight Club

The Boondock Saints

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Back to the Future

The Chronicles of Narnia

About a Boy

Favorite Music

Eddie Vedder, Jack Johnson, End of an Era, The Beatles, Peter Gabriel, Muse, Bruce Springsteen, Drake Bell, Hellogoodbye, Dave Matthews, Duffy, Jason Mraz, John Mayer, Thrice, Goldfrapp, Moby, Kanye West, Regina Spektor

Favorite Talent

The list is so long (no special order):

Brad Pitt, Jim Carey, Ed Norton, Will Smith, Jon Voight, Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, D.J. Caruso, Matt Damon, Heath Ledger, Russel Crowe, Shia LaBeouf, Harrison Ford, Adam Sandler, Jason Reitman, Jake Gyllenhaa,l Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino, Leonardo DiCaprio, and many many more

Favorite Quotes

"Course he's not happy, nobody in this town is happy except for the losers, look at me I'm miserable that's why I'm rich!" - Jeremy Piven as Ari Gold in "Entourage"

"Don't make somebody a priority if they only make you an option"

"It's like the more he grew as an artist, the deeper he sank as a person" -Hector Lavoe's wife

"I am 'Mr. Karaoke Guy' in the car completely. I just go with it and don't care what anyone else thinks--I'm singing, man." -Drake Bell

"As an actor we take on many different personalities, which makes it easy to forget who you are, you can lose yourself. Many have."

"The love received is the love that is saved." -Eddie Vedder

"I know someday you'll have a beautiful life. I know you'll be a sun in somebody else's sky. But why can't it be mine?" -Eddie Vedder

"It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into grey." -Eddie Vedder

"Talent is funny, I've always looked at talent like what the hell does talent really mean? Talent is to actors what luck is to card players. It's not really anything, it's just a fictitious word that people have created and labeled things. Talent is like you know I never really believed in talent, I believed in drive and determination and preparation but talent is sort of like luck. I wouldn't want to think of myself as talented it doesn't seem like there's any validity in that. I like to think of myself as an ordinary man with extra ordinary determination. That's it." -Shia LaBeouf

"I feel like I'm wasting time if I repeat myself. I can't say I'm proud of my work. It's the same with everything I do: the day I say 'It's good' is the day I should start doing something else." -Heath Ledger

"I'm the worst auditioner, really, really bad. I mean, you're being judged and I'm just so aware of it that it consumes me. I can't relax, I'm tied in knots, so the voice is very taut and tense. You're so aware that you're acting 'cause you're sitting across from this lady with a piece of paper who's going, ''I'm. Going. To. Shoot. You. If. You. Don't. Blah, blah, blah,'' in this emotionless voice. It's foul. I hate it." -Heath Ledger

"Always make the audience suffer as much as possible" -Alfred Hitchcock

"I never did think of myself as handsome--terribly attractive, yes, but not handsome." -Liam Neeson

"The Idea of Suburbia scares the shit outta me!" -Christopher Landon, Writer of "Disturbia"

"I'm not a star, I'm an actor." -Shia LaBeouf

"I dream for a living." -Steven Spielberg

"I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday." -Steven Spielberg

"I always like to think of the audience when I am directing. Because I am the audience." -Steven Spielberg

"I'll probably never win an Oscar, but I'll sure have a lot of fun! I really believe that movies are the great escape!" -Steven Spielberg

"I interpret my dreams one way and make a movie out of them and people see my movies and make them part of their dreams." -Steven Spielberg

"To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication." -Marlon Brando