Christian Slater

“I did regret not graduating high school, but I made a point of going back and getting my GED later. It was important for my kids.”

“When I did 'Young Guns II,' I hung out with Emilio and Kiefer, and I once took a trip with Rob Lowe - we jumped trains.”

“The movies I've made at a certain time of my life were exactly right for the stage of my life, the frame of mind I was in at the time. Each character I've had to play has been me in that time in my life.”

“I enjoy the process of TV; I like the pace of it; I like the continual work.”

“As you get older you learn some balance and mediation in your life - that's where I am right now. I feel pretty comfortable about things.”

“If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I'm doing Nicholson. What am I supposed to do, cut off my eyebrows?”

“I'm trying not to put myself into anything I'm not 100 percent confident about.”

“Well, obviously, as soon as I'd finished the script I read a lot of books on Winston Churchill, and started to gain weight and really prepare emotionally, mentally and physically for the role.”

“I thought I'd get over being insecure if I became famous, but it hasn't happened. It just gets worse, really. You get more and more on edge, more nervous. These are all the things I'm dealing with. You think if you get famous, fear will go away and problems will go away. But they don't.”

“I'm not a great card player. Keeping my cards close has always been a challenge for me.”

“Theater was definitely part of my roots. My father would take me to plays, and then my mother was always on the lookout for other talent and taking me to see plays. I saw Frank Langella in 'Dracula'... Great, great performances. I was a theater rat, hanging out backstage.”

“There was a time when I felt I should do everything that was offered to me, you know, ride the wave.”

“'Heathers' was probably the first time when I started to notice that people were opening doors for me and giving me tables at restaurants, regardless of what I was wearing. A whole world opened up to me that was shocking and weird and different, and I enjoyed it, and, you know, I took great advantage of it at times.”

“Sometimes you can tell a wise person not only by what he says but also by what he doesn't say. Remember, it is much better to say little than to say too much and regret it later.”

“I try to stay away from the craft services table on set! That's probably why I am able to still get work in this business: I stay away from junk food.”

“I am a gypsy, in a way. It's a condition of my profession.”

“Sometimes people come up to me and say, 'You were my teen crush.' I'm honored and I'm touched, but I also ask, 'What happened? Why'd you take the poster down?' I get a little heartbroken in that situation.”

“I'm certainly grateful that there were projects that I did that people responded to. It would be a nightmare if it were the other way around. But it's sometimes a little disheartening.”

“I had tutors, but education was just not a priority.”

“The '80s was a wild decade, and I had some fantastic times. And I did some really fun work.”