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I'm tired of playing the brat.
I have no desire to be famous at all.
I have a very bad relationship with mice.
A good leader needs to know how to follow.
I'm tired of answering questions about myself.
You sleep with people all the time that you hate.
I like studio movies; I love big commercial movies.
I've written some love letters in my life, I can say.
I find that I kind of have to sink into the character.
I don't really care that much about being a matinee idol.
If I can't see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny?
I feel like my behavior goes over better on the streets of New York.
People should try eating no animal products for just one day a week.
Sometimes being an actor is kind of demanding in very different ways.
I'd like to never be able to get pigeonholed, which is difficult to do.
My aim was not to fool. My aim was to provoke thought and stir emotion.
A lot of the times, I end up having to do jobs to sort of pay the bills.
Celebrity never really served me that well; it serves other people well.
But when I start to kiss someone - lust is the easiest emotion to generate.
Great books don't make great movies. There's too much information in there.
I get offered a lot of the same type of thing... The teenage slasher movies.
Why can't people just say they were moved? Why do they have to say it's sappy?
It seems like they never say anything bad about actors, they just pump them up.
Is it really every 10 years that you get to work on a great movie? That can't be.
In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.
I have friends who remember seeing fish hauled onto a boat's deck and beaten to death.
When I was a kid, we didn't really leave Cambridge, which was the town where I grew up in.
After I left LA... it was like waking up. And so I moved back east and stopped auditioning.
Most calves used by the dairy industry have their horns BURNED or GOUGED out of their heads.
You're encouraged to do the same kind of movies. But I would like to keep doing different things.
In New York, as long as you're not peeing in someone's doorway, everyone thinks you're a gentleman.
I wish I had more control over my career, but making movies is something you do with lots of people.
I live in New York full time. I can't live in L.A., because I fear people think I'm a vagrant there.
If you have kids, you feel everything stronger. It's like someone turning the lights on in your inner room.
If you show up in L.A. with your shirt inside out or socks mismatched, people start putting change in your cup.
A movie's very different from the book, and it's different from the script, and it's usually one person's vision.
I get very sentimental, I get very nostalgic, and when I live in a place, I instantly put down way too many roots.
Truth is, there's never really been anything so horrible said about me that I haven't either thought of or said to myself.
Most of my acting jobs have resulted in a series of mortifying revelations spread over years and years following the shoot.
I think that the movies I do are the ones that I really like the least. I don't like watching them because of that problem.
When other people say, 'Oh you're so-and-so's friend, brother, or husband,' it's reductive to the point of being white noise.
Definitely, my approach is me-oriented. I feel like my job is to safeguard the believability of the emotions of the character.
My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.
Things are never crystal clear, but at some point, they reveal themselves to you. You just hope it happens when you're still on set.
When I like someone a lot, I get scared that I'll let them down. My fear of sucking is worst when I feel like someone thinks I'm good.
Talking to other people about a part is not helpful for me. It's such an internal and complicated and still kind of mysterious process.
The idea of someone not liking me or not liking my movie was always easier to deal with than someone really liking it. I don't know why.
When you're the younger brother, usually it's not that common that you're having these experiences that your older brother is in awe of.
Chickens, cows, and pigs in factory farms spend their whole lives in filthy, cramped conditions, only to die a prolonged and painful death.
I've chosen the parts that have interested me and parts that I thought I could do a job with but also were challenging and a little bit scary.