Stephen Dorff quotes:

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 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?"

I've mainly been in dramas, so this is one of my first comedy kind of performances in Cecil B. Demented.

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.

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 play guitar and I love the Beatles and melodic music.

Yes, I definitely plan to direct at some point.

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.

It used to be you did TV or you did film. Now it's like a media blitz.

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.

Vampires to me have always been very sexy.

I liked getting the best villain award. I thought that was funny.

You have to feel the bad to be able to feel the good.

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

I don't want to just be in the normal kind of teen movie.

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

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.

I started acting before that when I was about 13 or 14.

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.

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.

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 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 would have wanted my mom to see me settle down and to be a grandma to my kids.

I wouldn't want to do a whole movie with effects.

I'm always feeling like I have to do some bad action movie for money.

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

I've read some scripts, but I don't read as many books as I should.