"It`s tough now, because am I like an ambassador (for Mormonism) now? I was representing the church on my mission, and now I`m representing the church again in some ways. Sometimes I downplay it. `I`m a Mormon. This is what Mormons do.` That`s not my thing. I want to get up there and tell entertaining stories but that are also to a certain extent clean."

"I don`t think I ever will do a sex scene because of my religion and my personal standards. Coming into this business has opened up many doors where I`m constantly making a decision on each project. I`ll never do a sex scene where you see a man and a woman lie on the bed and the camera is still there with the naked actors in your face. I won`t show the act of it on screen."

"If I look back at the scripts I received after Napoleon Dynamite (2004), I think the town thought I had multiple personalities that were all a variation of that character. They probably just thought of me as someone their kids liked, but was more like the goofy kid that asked to mow their lawn, not a professional actor".