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"Honestly, I think it's dumb luck that I'm able to kind of get away doing different types of films in different genres. There's always a tendency to kind of stick with what works, or stick with one particular kind of brand or movie. But so far I've been getting away with it, so I'm going to continue to do that for as long as I can."
"I can't say I've ever finished a film and been particularly thrilled with myself or patted myself on the back. And maybe that's what keeps me going, and that's a good thing. It speaks volumes about how I perceive myself."
"It's a lot of working out, you know, and you don't get to eat all the things you wanna eat."
"There's a lot of actors I think that appear so much more together as the characters they portray as opposed to the actual people, so I know I've said this before: Hollywood's not a place where you're rewarded for growing up."
"I grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia."
"I love doing six versions of any joke, so if they'll give me six takes, I'd love to do it."
"A live action movie is work, and an animated movie is you showing up in your pajamas once every three months, or in my case, just a splash of baby powder. It's not any kind of heavy lifting."
"By the time I came to L.A. I'd already cried on movies of the week with two of the women from 'Knots Landing'."
"I don't like seeing the stuff that's not polished. It's harder for me to step away from it and watch that."
"My father was a police officer before he retired. One of my brothers is also a police officer, and I think they kind of expected I would do something along those lines, like become a fireman or something."
"I'm not one of those actors who romanticizes his trials working out and brags that he can bench press a panda now."
"Sometimes it's just enough to keep your body moving. I get depressed if I don't move."
"You have to really make sure that every moment means something, and that every moment, there's a purpose for it. And then you have to blend it all together without it looking like you're really focusing on it. That, to me, was the magic trick that was most difficult for the film [Buried]."
"If you want a film and they don't want you, sometimes you have to go fight for it. Sometimes that ends up just being a meeting really, just sitting down with them and just saying here is my vision for it and here is why I really love it. But for the most part, I think filmmakers gravitate towards people that are excited - as excited as they are about the film and as passionate about it. So sometimes going after it isn't so much a function of auditioning as it is just sitting down with the filmmaker."
"I firmly believe that you can't manufacture chemistry with anyone, let alone a kid."
"I run in a pair of New Balances with a thinner sole, but they're nothing like those barefoot shoes that show all five toes. I have a bit of a phobia about those."
"I'm one of the most fortunate guys around,I still get to do those kinds of movies, and then I get to do Green Lantern, and I get to do Buried with an auteur like Rodrigo Cortés. I enjoy that I can get away with that."
"Graphic novels and comic books offer an easy foothold into that world, and screenwriters and studio execs gravitate toward those, because I think they can see it all right there. It's like, "Here's what the movie looks like.""
"Every time I hangout with Sandra Bullock I think I want to be her. I want to be married to Jesse James."
"When your dad's a cop, calling 911 is really just like calling Dad at work."