quotes

Matthew: (about being offered the role on Criminal Minds) I was like 'They really wanna cast me?' and they  were like 'yeah.' and I was like 'cool.'

Matthew: (about his family) My family still knows I'm an idiot, thank god.

Matthew: (describing his character, Dr. Spencer Reid) He's kinda like Doogie Howser, if he had a gun.

Matthew: (about being an intern for Wes Anderson) I was maybe the worst intern in history. I don't even know what couscous is.

Matthew: (about his jump from Intern in Wes Anderson's NYC production to playing another intern in the movie The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou) I had to get a perm. I went from getting mango chutney for these guys (Wes and his production crew) to all of a sudden having production assistants and cars. I was just sitting around, relaxing with this perm. It was the ugliest perm in the history of cinema. They said it would be a cool perm, and I was like, 'Are you mad? Perms aren't cool.'

Matthew: (about his style) I am embarrasingly 1920s in style. I like to be in bed at 11, and I like to get 11 hours of sleep. I've been to three parties in my life and two of them with Shemar. He's slowly trying to wean me into [that scene].

Matthew: (talking about a shirt with a drawling of himself that he drew himself) Anytime someone wears a picture of themself drawn by themself on their own shirt you can--yeah I feel like a jerk.

Matthew: (describing to the cameraman what he looked like when he was young) That's me, I look like a sort of like a fat Meg Ryan.

Matthew: (joking about his co-star Shemar Moore's six pack abs) My six pack is better then Shemar's. Tell Shemar I said my six pack is a little better then his. It's a seven pack.

Matthew: (about which Reid He likes better) I kinda like the old school Reid a little more. Naïve Reid. I was doing the math in my head during the drug addiction script. In like 30 episodes, he's been held hostage three times, has killed two people, a kid he identified with slashed his wrists in front of him, he was shot full of heroin.

Matthew: (joking about his character) In the first episode I'm like Macaulay Culkin. I'm so young. Now I look really old and decrepit.

Matthew: (thinking he had toothpaste on the side of his mouth) I will literally stop in the middle of scenes to check.