"I'm an actor, I'm not a comedian, I never was a comedian."
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"When I look at interviews from when I was that age, I come off different than how I am because I've matured - and I've matured, become a man in front of the public eye."
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"It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world."
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"21 Jump Street is great. I just made that, and produced it and was a writer on it. It's starring myself and Channing Tatum, and maybe some surprise guests."
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"A whole generation was raised to learn about comedy from The Simpsons. To get to be in a booth with Homer and Marge and be in Springfield - it was unimaginable the emotions that I felt."
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"I think it's kind of strange when people talk about how hyped-up the movie is. It almost sets you up for a bigger fall."
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"You have more of a responsibility to make the audience laugh. In comedy, we do have to say, "All right, it's been two minutes in the film. We need another laugh here." With drama, there's no pressure in that regard. It's a different kind of pressure, but it's not like we need to make someone laugh."
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"Luckily with animation, they give you a lot more leeway than a live-action show."
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"I realized I never played a character that was skilled at anything, or skilled at anything that I couldn't become skilled at."
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"I'm very, very attracted to morally ambiguous characters, not just pure bad guys or pure good guys."
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"Every time you're directing a movie you're kind of building a temporary business. You're hiring all these heads of departments, and it definitely feels like I'm like a CEO of a very temporary company."
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"Maybe if you play somebody in a certain world people sometimes misinterpret that it's a support of that world or that occupation or something."
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"I don't watch like Sci-fi or things like that, I'm always more like real life is so endlessly fascinating to me."
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"It's just hard when you're someone who's like hurting a lot of people or deceiving people who trust you, not to bring some of that home with you or inside of you."
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"People are so funny. There's no winning with commenters or anonymous people. They'd be rude that I was overweight, and now they're rude that I'm healthy."
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"When a movie like 'Superbad' or 'Moneyball' comes out, people make you feel like you're the most important person on the planet. The truth is, you're a billion percent not the most important person on the planet. It's all insulated in your world and no one could care less. It's just a movie."
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"I'm sure a bunch of 15-year-old kids would way rather I do 'Superbad 2 than 'Moneyball.' But I would love to do movies like 'Superbad' and movies like 'Moneyball.'"
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"I'm too judgmental of other people putting themselves out there in any way, I guess."
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"When you do your comedy and your drama, your acting style doesn't change. If it's a comedy, the situations and the characters might be a little funnier, but you're just trying to be honest."
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"I think morality is so individual and personal, and people draw their own lines of what that means for them."
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