Quotes from Freddie Prinze, Jr.

My first job was four words in 'Family Matters.' It was huge!

The first thing I did when my career started moving was to buy a small house.

I don't know if acting is genetic. Maybe it's environmental.

I don't really read magazines that much. I read comic books.

I did '24;' it was terrible. I hated every moment of it.

I've heard, 'May the Force be with you' about as many times as, 'Hey, how you doing?'

Girls in L.A. don't eat anything! I'll say, 'You look hungry. I'm not kissing you till you're full because I'm afraid you're going to bite my lip.'

We've got a lot of love here, and for me that's what family is all about.

I really don't like hurting people; I like making people feel good.

People who have seen my movies don't look at me like an idol. They just give me a lot of love and respect.

I follow my heart in almost every instance, and it gets me in trouble most of the time. But I don't care. I think that's the best way I can live.

A couple of years ago, right before I made 'Down to You,' there was a moment when I questioned what I was doing and if it meant anything. I felt like I wasn't accomplishing anything, that the goals I'd set were silly goals. Finally, I realized I just loved acting. It was a very clear moment, and my whole life changed then.

I was just after Generation X. I missed the John Hughes movies; I had to watch them on TBS.

Speaking Spanish isn't a benefit in Hollywood.

I grew up all over the place, but the majority of my years were spent in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

I would have loved to have played Spider-Man.

I just want people to recognize my father as an artist who was way ahead of his time. He was a genius. His life just burnt out quicker than it should have. And that is unfortunate, but what is more unfortunate is that everybody focuses on the nature of his death as opposed to the nature of his life, which was so much greater and more important.

Personally, when things upset me, I get quiet and closed off. I have nothing to say, and a chill sets in while I think about what's going on.

My old man taught me a lot of stuff in his death that I don't even know if he would have been able to teach me had he been alive. And that was to never do stuff that can jeopardize the people you love and hurt them.

Shooting in Brooklyn is like opening a time capsule. Nothing has changed. Everything looks like it did in the eighties.

I've never seen 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.'

I know throughout my childhood, there were many times I couldn't stand being a 'Jr.' I wouldn't want anybody else to go through that. If we'd had a boy, he wouldn't have been another Freddie Prinze.

A car just gets me from A to B. I really don't spend that much time driving.