Josh Schwartz: We did so much last year, we have nothing left for season two. pause Please don't air that.

Adam Brody: I think the table reading went well. What have you heard?

Rachel Bilson: My first scene on the show, I showed up on set, and it was like, "Here's your bikini, here's your little mini-skirt. Now go out on the freezing beach and be drunk and basically molest Ben's character Ryan.

Rachel about their first public appearance: It was an enormous crowd, and I was like, "Holy (long pause) beep."

Josh in wardrobe: Can we see some wife-beater options?

Josh about actors borrowing wardrobe: We're on to you, Bilson. Give us back the shoes. Give 'em back.

Peter Gallagher: We have the all-nude O.C. coming up. Which has no wardrobe at all. I'm hoping it will start a fad.

Tate Donovan: The jokes aren't very practical on the show. Really, to tell you the truth. No. Impractical jokes. Lots of them.

Ben McKenzie: I have thrown Mischa in a garbage can.

Adam Brody about Cotillion: See that one I remember being particularly painful. We had to wear the stupidest outfits ever. I felt like a butler.

Ben: My character punches people more than I do in real life.

Ben: I’m hitting people too much. My right arm is... tired.

Peter: God knows when you're teenagers you think about sex 125% of the time. When you've been married 200 years you think about sex 98% of the time.

Alan Dale: It was a series of disasters with the end of the last season. Including my marriage.

Josh Schwartz: Every day it's sunny and 73 degrees in Orange County. Never a cloud in the sky. Although I've been told if we wanted a cloud we could do that digitally.

Josh: The surface of the hot tub is a little bit... icky. I wouldn't go in there. Notice none of the actors have been in the hot tub for like a year and a half. We should probably have someone look into that.

Josh: Very early on in the season Melinda came up to me and said, "When do I get one of the young ones?". Which, you know, should let you know a little bit about Melinda.

Alan Dale: By the end of the season we were totally inbred. I mean it was one big family.

Josh: This season is beyond a triangle. We're looking for new shapes. Hexagons, octagons, trapezoids... We’re going for it this year.

Josh: I think my dad’s still convinced I’m a virgin. Please don't air that.

Josh: Chrismukkah is catching on. This year we have Yamaclaus.

Adam: We hang all the time. My dad—Kevin Kline—is cool.

Josh: So over the summer Seth sailed away to parts unknown. Kirsten decided to do what any woman I guess decides to do when she lost her son, and that's take it out on her house. So she's renovated.

Kirsten upon Seth learning Sandy is passed out drunk: You are not drawing on your father. grabs marker That privilege is reserved for me.

Ben: It's hard not to be drawn into the eyebrows. I often end up doing scenes with the eyebrows. They’re magnetic. They have this power, this energy.
Adam: They have their own trailer.

Josh about Ryan getting hurt in a scene: I fled the country quickly. I went down to Mexico. See you guys in syndication.