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I am a collection of thoughts and memories and likes and dislikes. I am the things that have happened to me and the sum of everything I've ever done. I am the clothes I wear on my back. I am every place and every person and every object I have ever come across. I am a bag of bones stuck to a very large rock spinning a thousand miles an hour.

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Back, Wear, Very, Place

After seeing 'Big,' I wanted an elevator that opened directly into my apartment, just like Tom Hanks did.

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Big, Like, Opened, Tom

I'd made enough money by the time I was 12 to never have to work again.

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Money, Never, By The Time, Enough Money

I try not to label myself anything, really, but you know, I'm definitely an indoorsy person, and I definitely kind of just try to, you know, stay away from life in the public eye, at least.

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Myself, Kind, Away, Public Eye

I have no control over people's perceptions of me at all and that's one of the things I decided very early on is that I can't control the way other people think of me. All I can do, especially when it comes to my career is go out there and do cool unique kinds of things.

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Career, Other, Very, Perceptions

I'm not expecting the American literary community to welcome me with open arms. To them I'm just some schmuck kid who wrote some book.

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Some, Expecting, Literary, Schmuck

I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.

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Myself, Enjoy, People, Writes

Oh wow, you know what's wrong with all these families on TV? All these kids say stuff no kid would say. Stuff grown-ups want them to say. Man, I'd make a really realistic family. Where kids get spankings. On TV parents say, 'Oh, you shouldn't do that ever again. Now you can have ice cream.' Forget it.

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Kid, Ice, TV, Ice Cream

I get carded for soda, you know, when I go to the supermarket. I mean, they card me for everything. You know, I can't even get through a hand of black jack without getting carded, like, five times.

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Go, Through, Like, Jack

I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my age, and I didn't really have friends. I had a million acquaintances and no friends.

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Had, Which, A Good Thing, No Friends

All the child-star cliches, I've tried very hard to avoid them all.

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Tried, Very, Them, Cliches

I do have a family, and I do have friends, and so-called friends, and acquaintances, and many other people I see only around Christmas time. Maybe they could vouch for me. Maybe they could testify to my existence and save a part of me that thinks I'm no better than a bag of potato chips.

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Chips, Other, Maybe, Testify

I had all the fame anyone could want, and I ran away from it.

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Away, Could, Anyone, Ran

I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn't want that for myself. Like I said, when I was 14 years old, I decided to quit. I didn't ever want to do it again.

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Old, Like, Could, Child Actors

Michael Jackson and I talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most people can't understand either of us.

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Think, Other, I Think, None

I'm not one of those people who needs that gratification of doing, like, 10 films a year.

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Doing, Needs, Films, Gratification

I remember sitting one time doing 100 interviews in a day, and they're all television interviews and they're kind of - and you just sit there and they bring these people in and out, and in out.

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Doing, Kind, I Remember, Sitting

If an alien race lands on the planet Earth tomorrow and asks me to prove I'm really here, what do I do? What do I give them? What do I tell them? What do I show them? I can't sing or dance. I can't paint. I've never built anything, and I've never contributed anything significant to the human race.

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Tell, Here, Prove, Planet Earth

It's like, I don't think you understand, Michael Jackson's bedroom is two stories and it has, like, three bathrooms and this and that. So, when I slept in his bedroom, yes, but you understand the whole scenario.

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Think, Like, Stories, Bedroom

My father was overbearing. Very controlling. He was always the way he is, even before my success. He was not always a good person. He'd play mind games to make sure I knew my place. I don't see him, which is unfortunate. But I don't have any desire to see him. I vaguely know where he is, and I don't want to know.

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Play, Before, Very, Controlling

People still recognize me all the time on the street. The first thing they say when they stop me is, 'Where have you been?' The second comment they make is always, 'Oh, you've grown up.'

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Street, Been, Second, Comment

I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but I don't want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx it.

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Been, I Write, Amount, Gathering

I can go to any restaurant without a reservation, but while I'm there, everyone's gonna be staring.

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Restaurant, Everyone, Gonna, Staring

I did 14 movies in six years, I had a cartoon TV show, and I don't want to do that again. I just want to make unique pieces of art. That's why I quit everything when I was 14 and sat around for eight years before I did another movie.

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Movie, Before, TV, I Quit

Most of the offers I get from Hollywood are for teen comedies. My manager thinks I'm crazy for turning down all that money, but I'm very picky.

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Hollywood, Very, Offers, Comedies

They put it on the page because it sounded good or it looked good or they read it in a book somewhere that this is how you structure a script or something, and they just don't get it. It's surprising.

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Book, Read, Looked, Structure

I'm not one of those actors who needs the media spotlight all the time to feel gratified. I'm happy to do one project a year and take the rest of the year off as long as that project is special.

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Rest, Year, Needs, Gratified

I lead a simple life. I feed the fish. I walk the dogs. I cook dinner. Occasionally I take a meeting.

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Simple, Simple Life, Cook, Occasionally

I enjoy my life. I think I have a very good life. And I think I'm very satisfied with the direction of my career and just my lifestyle and everything like that. So I wouldn't change a single thing.

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My Life, Think, Very, Lifestyle

If I find cool, open-minded people, want to do unique one-of-a-kind kind of project, I'll do it as long as I can.

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Cool, Kind, Want, Open-Minded

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