Quotes
"I DON'T smile a lot in pictures 'I'm not into being the cheeseball.'"
"Back in grade nine, when overalls were, like, the coolest things, I was wearing a pair at school. These older brothers of my friends thought it would be funny to hook me on the wall where the fire extinguisher was supposed to be. So they lifted me up...and I couldn't get off. The bell rang, and I was still stuck on this fire extinguisher thing. [Finally] a teacher came and lifted me off."
Grandma Sawa; Devon Sawa may have been a friendly ghost in the role of Casper, but in his new flick, Idle Hands, he's definitely devilish. Well, at least his hands are! When his hands were possessed and out of control, the only way to contain them was to keep them working. How did he do it? Knitting of course! In fact, now that shooting has finished, Devon is quite the expert knitter. "Now I'm going to town," he says. "Making my family blankets, sweaters and hats." Awwww!
"I love my cast! One day I found myself running from Amanda Detmer and Kerr Smith, who were trying to run me over with their car."
"There are tons of things that have been written about me on the Internet that are total crap. I'll go on to these fan sites and think, where the hell did that come from? All of a sudden I have two gerbils and four goldfish? I mean, really, two gerbils? And they're named Coke and Pepsi or something like that. Come on!"
"My fans made me. But sometimes there's some weird stories about me, my favorite color, the kind of girls I like, all of that stuff that's just not true and I never said it. All I ask is that my fans don't believe everything they read."
"It's hard to get jobs in Vancouver," he says. "There's a lot going on up there, but to get a really good job you have to be in L.A., whether it's shot in Vancouver or not. They're not going to give some kid in Vancouver a lead in a motion picture."
"One casting director told me, 'You're the next Leonardo DiCaprio,' and when I heard that, I said, 'Let's talk about how I don't want anything to do with being like Leo.' He's an amazing actor, but the films we're pushing to do are different. I'm going my own way — in a big way."
— Movieline, July 1997
"I honestly always pick at myself about my neck and chicken legs," he admits. "I always find something wrong with me. I worry more about how I'm going to look in the future, if my nose is gonna grow 10 feet long."
"Totally bad kissers turn me off... a girl who comes on way too fast when we're kissing. If she's just really wet and sloppy and wants to eat your face off, I classify that as a bad kisser."
[where he'd go on his dream date] "I'd like to go to the beach at night and picnic on the beach, maybe hold hands, walk down the beach, listen to the waves under the moon. That probably would be my dream date."
"I like to date girls who are themselves, have a good sense of humor and a good personality. Just a girl who doesn't wear a lot of makeup. A little bit of makeup is okay, but some girls just goosh it on, and that's kind of a turn-off."
[on his first kiss] "I was in grade 7 and I had no idea what I was doing. She kissed me... I just sat there and, uh, got kissed."
"It doesn't matter if she shares my interests or not."
"I don't know if I have ever been in love."
"It's more like hanging out together. I don't think I've ever had one of those romantic dates. I want to, but I haven't met the right girl yet."
At 14, Devon was the national spokeskid for Kenner Products' Nerf Toys. But we'll let him tell about it: "I did all their commercials for a couple of years and I did TV shows and stuff like that. But commercials are really behind me now. I mean if Nerf came to me right now and asked me to do more I would definitely do more just 'cause it was so much fun!"
"I really got into Meg Ryan after I saw her in "When a Man Loves a Woman". I had a huge crush on her. She's a great actress, and I just like the way she carries herself."
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