“I love Los Angeles, and it’s been very good to me, but if everyone is running around telling the stories, who’s living them?”

You don’t play characters that are celebrities – you play guys who know what to do when their septic tank’s blocked.

When I’m surfing, I’m sure not thinking about the paparazzi. I guess if they start getting on floaties and coming out there in the water, then I might be a little upset.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin’ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

Starting at about, I guess, forever, I’ve always looked forward to getting older. When I was 14, I couldn’t wait to be 16 and get a driver’s license.

I’ve been in a couple of weddings where the coolest people that were the most day before so mellow and then the day of the wedding freaking out.

My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.

I personally don’t like to go see romantic comedies. But people do want to see them, and they seem to want to see me in them.

If you can be mentally stimulated by the workout and find out how to get through it, it’s more fun.

My lawyer has been a good friend of mine for a long time. He and I continuously have conversations.

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go.

It’s not a science when you are judging art, but we’d be remiss to say you can’t look at something and say, ‘This is more well done than that.’

My last name is originally Irish. I’m not exactly sure whereabouts it’s from, but I’ve got family branches that were traced back there.

When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention.

Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they’re built to be buoyant. It’s easy to demean them.

Without exercise, I don’t feel like my head works right.

I love good film, whether it’s an independent or studio film. The independent films, I think the good ones aren’t necessarily eccentric ones but they’re the more specific ones.

There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There’s still time, but not a lot, to turn things around.

The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.

Nothing good happens after midnight, nothing good happens when you’re around guns unless you’re going hunting, and you don’t want to mess around with women that you don’t know because a lot of times, bad things happen.

You’ve got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you’re not alive.

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.

Think on your toes, use what’s around you, and come up with something organic and fun.

Jesse McCartney is one of the nicest people around.

Son, we’d like to keep you around this season but we’re going to try and win a pennant.