"I like playing characters that, you know, a couple could go see the movie and one person could love him and one person could hate him."
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"It's harder to be funny if you're handsome than if you're very normal-looking. It's just more relatable. You're the underdog. I mean it's funny to see people struggle, and you don't buy that Brad Pitt is struggling, you know that guy could be the most skill-less guy in the world, but if you look like that you will be fine for the rest of your life."
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"The comedy really comes from how badly you want these characters to succeed and with a comedy that's often hard."
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"If you're trying to make someone happy, you gotta try and make them happy. If you're trying to have a normal conversation, you've got to have a normal conversation. If you're trying to make them sad, you've got to make them sad. I think that's how you get real performances out of people."
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"It wasn't like, 'I'ma lose weight and start doing dramas.' I wanted to be healthier, and that was the impetus for wanting to lose weight - it's just about being healthy and feeling good."
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"I like when you can have a conversation with people and it's not just stock questions."
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"If I ever over hear people saying I give off an 'Ed Harris type of sexy vibe.' I'll be pretty psyched."
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"The fact that the Kardashians could be more popular than a show like “Mad Men” is disgusting. It’s a super disgusting part of our culture, but I still find it funny to make a joke about it."
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"Being in TV is insane. The notes you get sometimes, I just don't understand them."
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"I run and do a lot of push-ups and eat healthy."
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"I was thin in high school and then I gained weight. I went to a nutritionist. I learned for the first time about what things are healthy to eat, basically."
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"I grew up in the '80s in L.A., so Ice Cube and Magic Johnson are my heroes."
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"Professionally, I feel like I won the lottery and I am the luckiest person in the entire world."
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"'Allen Gregory' came about because we wanted an animated show and we were just tossing around some ideas about me playing a 7-year-old. We thought that would be cool, because we couldn't do that in real life."
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"Albert Brooks is definitely one of my biggest influences, for sure."
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"As an actor, you tell part of a story. As a writer, you get more of telling that story. But as a director, they're seeing the world through your eyes."
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"Jump Street merging with MiB I think that's clean and rad and powerful."
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"All this stuff is so mind-blowing to me that I get to do in my life. Throwing the first pitch out at the White Sox game on a random Wednesday? Like who am I? How did I get this life? I'm glad I'm not jaded, and little kids are the least jaded people in the entire world, so it's fun to be around people that still find wonder in how cool things are."
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"Comedies are doing well because I think people want to laugh and not think about everything for a little bit."
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"My heroes are Bill Murray and Dustin Hoffman. Those are the two actors that both do comedies and dramas, seamlessly. Also John C. Reilly and Philip Seymour Hoffman. They're all just great actors, neither comedic nor dramatic. They're just great actors."
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