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"Usually I'm trying to turn something around or turn it inside out and see what's underneath. I know that probably sounds incredibly vague but I never set out to be likeable or funny or anything like that. I'm just trying to tell the story in the best way that I can and serve the writer because it's really about the writer."
"My way to combat anything is just to walk straight into it with my fists up."
"I feel like movies, if there's any kind of budget whatsoever, there's so much sitting, and I really like to work. Otherwise my blood sugar just drops, you know, six hours sitting in a camper."
"I don't really ever think about whether or not I like the characters I'm playing. I'm more into the minutiae of their behaviour or what they're doing in a certain scene."
"I like to pretend that I'm a tough guy. It's kind of an admission of defeat if I have to ask for help - or even kindness. But if it doesn't come, at some point I snap and demand it."
"I'm not comfortable with getting a job by being at the right Hollywood party; I'm not a terribly sociable creature."
"My sister's fish tacos are out of control. I'd give her a restaurant if I were a gazillionaire."
"I have a child and I don't want to be at work all the time when he's small. I want to spend time with him."
"In college, my teachers were usually after me for going after comedy too much, leaning too much in that direction."
"I don't put myself out there, so people aren't necessarily familiar with me or my face."
"I never feel more useful than when I'm making my kids a bowl of soup."
"I have to say, I haven't really worked with that many people in my career that I haven't liked, which I think is really rare."
"I just want to make lunches and organize my kids' playroom."
"I haven't read the comic book. I didn't even know there was one until about halfway though. Helen Mirren and I were talking about that actually, who also felt kind of silly. When we had to run she was like, 'Oh God, we're both going to get fired.' The running sequences, it's a particular kind of humiliation because it's fun."
"I always wondered what people thought of it because it looked so stupid to me on the page and I loved the other finale so I thought it was going to be really stupid but some people really liked it."
"Just when I got out of school, I seemed to get hired for a lot of dramatic things, and people tend to remember you how they've seen you the first time."
"My favorite scene in all of movies is Gregory Peck in To Kill A Mockingbird: You see him where he's on the porch, and his face is almost completely obscured. I don't want to see his face."
"I never know why people come up to me. I think a lot of them just get super-excited because they recognize me from TV but they don't remember where."
"Unless you got a really good reason, you should be nice."