* "My older brother told me, 'Stay away from women', and I'm taking it to heart. I'm staying clear. It's kind of like a museum where they have those really cool paintings. They're behind the glass and you can look at them, but you can't touch them. That's what it's like with girls. I can get myself into trouble. And also it's hard because I'm an actor and girls might not like me for who I am. That's hard to deal with." -- Hollywood Online, 1996 * "I don't read the teen magazines. They're weird. I see headlines like 'Big Blue Eyes Elijah Wood: We've Got Him!" I don't like that. It's so bubble-gummy." -- People, May 27, 1996 * "I'm not a dark person or anything, but it would be a challenge to be someone who's messed up in the head" -- Entertainment Weekly, November 25, 1994 * "I enjoy writing, and I know that if I can really focus on that and get some good tuturoing in English, I can be a really good writer when I get a little older. What's more fun than that? It's creating your own world." -- Entertainment Weekly, November 25, 1994 * "[The failure of "North"] doesn't affect me. I do a film. I do my best. I try to promote it the best I can, I see the film and that's it. I don't wait to see if it becomes number one. If it bombs, it's no tragedy. I'm done with the film, so I don't think about it." -- Boston Globe, October 30, 1994 * "[The failure of "North"] doesn't affect me. I do a film. I do my best. I try to promote it the best I can, I see the film and that's it. I don't wait to see if it becomes number one. If it bombs, it's no tragedy. I'm done with the film, so I don't think about it." -- Boston Globe, October 30, 1994 * "Kids are supposed to have fun. They're supposed to do something that they like to do, because they don't have to worry about paying the bills and things like that. I'm doing something that I like to do and I'm having fun. Acting, for me, is normal. When you're doing something that you love to do, it's almost like you've created your own little childhood. I'm not being forced into it and I'm having a great time." -- Boston Globe, October 30, 1994 * "I'm kind of better behaving than Huck Finn, let's put it that way. The worst kind of lying I've ever done is keeping things from people." -- USA Today, April 5, 1993