I always related most to Steve McQueen because he was more of an outcast than Robert Redford or Paul Newman.
— Patrick Fugit
One day, you're a nobody, and the next, you're in a movie that everybody is talking about. But Hollywood has a way of knocking you back down to Earth.
I'm not a very fast-paced person.
I had an agent in Salt Lake City, but acting was more like a hobby.
Oh, I'm quite the impulse buyer. Most of what I buy is stuff for my Jeep, 'cause it breaks down a lot.
If you think you're going to work with Cameron Crowe and not get into his music, you're crazy. But he doesn't force it on you. He doesn't force anything on you, which really makes things easier.
It's a very enticing, very seductive place, but once you get to know what L.A.'s really like, you don't want to live there.
There are these girls who live in Maryland: they're the Patrick Super Fan Club Association of America. They've sent me videotapes of themselves just eating and talking about Hanson, and a loaf of bread that was really moldy by the time it got here.
The day after I got an agent, I got called in for a role in a TV movie called 'Legion Of Fire: Killer Ants.'
My dad has a huge vinyl collection downstairs, but I was never too interested. The only CD I had was by Adam Sandler.
