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I haven't met a lot of 'Hogan Family' fans.

I don't really find a problem with technology or television or anything. I'm a product of it. I grew up watching TV, and I don't think I'm too dumb or too crazy.

The comedy community is very friendly right now. I think that's why you see all the synergy and people doing each other's movies.

Do you want to continue being great at being in your twenties, or do you want to step up and graduate into adulthood?

Kids want you to take them to whatever kid movie is opening, and you just hope it's good because you're going to buy a ticket, no matter what. If it's no good, you kind of drape your arm over your kid so they don't get smashed, and you take a little nap.

I looked around at the relationships that were the longest in my life, and they were the ones I had with my friends. I thought, 'If I only wanted to get married once, I should probably marry a friend.'

I was never at a place where rehab would have been appropriate.

I only wanted to get married once, so when I felt I was ready to handle it, I looked at my relationships and noticed that boyfriends get tired of girlfriends, and vice versa, but you never get tired of your friends.

I think anybody who's doing work in their teen years on TV or in the movies, you're a teen idol by default.

Things are going better now than ever, but in 24 months? I could be hearing crickets.

I'd worked so hard that by the time I was 20, I wanted to play hard. And I did that really well.

I would rather do three or four small parts every year as opposed to some of the lower-hanging fruit that might get my name above the title.

Ideally, that's what you've got in an acting career is an equal number of dramas and comedies and an equal number of small films and big films.

I have a tendency to evolve into William Shatner, with my big fat face.

If people are going to complain about stereotyping, it's as likely to be Italian-Americans as gay people.

Not a lot of people get a second chance. And I think for a while there, my name kind of got in my way a bit, based on all of the television I was fortunate enough to do. But after a while, you sort of wear out your welcome in that genre, in that medium.

Marathons are good training goals.

That straight man character is a short trip between comedy and drama in a project, so I can play the comedic beat on the same page as a dramatic beat. It gives me a lot of freedom as an actor to play scenes in multiple ways because I don't play the clown, nor do I play someone who is particularly maudlin.

Not many get a chance to hit the career re-set button.

If you make a mistake, people are going to know about it really fast - and I was making a ton of them when I was a kid.

People still come up to me and say, 'Hey, 'Teen Wolf!' 'Teen Wolf Too' closed a week after it opened. Where did they see it?