Stephen Dorff

In a movie script, you know what the moments are that you really have to hit it out of the park.

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.

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

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 like being creative.

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

I used to play around and sing Randy Travis for my dad. I'd always be able to just mimic things.

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!

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

Vampires to me have always been very sexy.

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 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.