Seth Green

format_quote (on his character Lyle in The Italian Job (2003) (who speaks a lot of technical jargon:) "I don't believe in e-mail. I rarely use a cell phone and I don't have a fax. But part of the reason I got this job is that I'm good at making complicated technical terms sound normal. It sounds obnoxious, but I compare it to doing Shakespeare. You just figure out the emotional content of the line and go with that. It doesn't matter what you're saying if you come from an honest place. Though most people don't know half the words, you don't have to dumb down. I hate when they show a policeman saying "I've got a 3-U at Baker Street ... breaking and entering." No one talks like that."

stars  Based the gravelly voice of Chris Griffin in "Family Guy" (1999) on the Buffalo Bill character from The Silence of the Lambs (1991).

stars  Revealed in a 2005 "Fresh Air with Terry Gross" interview that he auditioned for the American Beauty role that eventually went to Wes Bentley, and he was the runner-up for the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind role that went to Elijah Wood.

stars  Jodie Foster's production company, Egg Pictures, is named after Green's character in The Hotel New Hampshire (1984), in which she also starred.

stars  At 13-years-old he played Alyson Hannigan's boyfriend 'Fred' in My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988). Ten years later, at the age of 23, he played her boyfriend again when he landed the role of 'Oz' on the TV show "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997).

stars  Was once room-mates with crooner Brian Evans in California. In Macleans Magazine (Canada), Evans called the experience "Unfortunate for Seth", adding that "I wasn't stable enough to live alone, never mind have a roommate."