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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.

I've always played different kinds of roles, and I probably played more vulnerable parts when I was really young.

I don't think Jack Nicholson has ever called me Stephen. He's like, 'Hey, Dorff. How are ya?'

I've just had some things to deal with, like family stuff, you know, lost my mom. Which is the most difficult stuff I've gone through. But it's just normal human stuff.

When I was 17, I was going to go to college because I couldn't get a movie.

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!

Yes, I definitely plan to direct at some point.

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.

But, I didn't get my first break until I was 17.

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.

My mom always wanted me to do movies where I played, whether I had flaws or not, guys that had a good heart.

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've never really dated actresses except when I was really young.

I'm used to having big movie cameras in my face; I pretend that they're not there.

Living at the beach, it's hard to get out of the sun.

I want to make a movie where people are, like, 'Whoa.'

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.

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.

My first manager was this lady named Booh Schut. She actually worked with me on my auditions.

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.

Being an actor is pretty much like being in the circus.