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Talent is very hot.
I'm so bored by business and money.
Advice? Look at your pay statements.
My family are huge 'Star Wars' fans.
All of my high school issues are resolved!
I guess 'Scarface' was the Cuban Al Pacino.
I grew up in a very devoutly Christian home.
I like the idea of the comedy of resilience.
There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
Getting a record deal is a meaningless thing now.
I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar.
I was always - maybe stupidly so - very confident.
For me, with a character, you start with the shoes.
Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid.
I had a great conversation with Tom Waits, of all people.
I've always liked acoustic blues. I liked Bob Dylan a lot.
I get attached to things: I wear the same jeans for a year.
You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
Humans are mutants, everything's a mutant - things that evolve.
If it was never new and it never gets old, then it's a folk song
People resent movies that try to tell them exactly what to feel.
I think romantic passion is wanting a little something in return.
I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.
Max Minghella is a very close friend of mine, and I talk to him regularly.
I'm open to the idea of doing more musicals if it's one that I really enjoy.
I don't know if they were all functioning, but I did play in a bunch of bands.
I'm definitely someone that's private. I've never been interested in celebrity.
You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
'Mojave' is a very wild, throwback film with these two dudes going after each other.
The hardest things to do in any art is to risk failure and put yourself out on the line.
'Drive' is a genre piece, and a lot of times we don't get really sophisticated genre films.
I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.
The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.
I had an audition where Josh Brolin was pelting me with his personality. I didn't get the part.
If you start trying to communicate ideas, I think you don't allow the audience to see themselves.
Coen brothers movies are not always what life looks like but it's definitely what life feels like.
'Cool' is detached and emotionally cool. My instinct is to battle anything that seems overly cool.
My dad was a doctor, but he was just always, like, going from hospital to hospital for some reason.
I always joked with my parents. I told them, 'If I don't make it as an actor, my fallback is musician.'
The superhero aesthetic is all about the human form and showing the body, whether they be female or male.
A personal game-changer was when Ridley Scott cast me as King John, the King of England, for 'Robin Hood.'
The motivation is important for me to act it, but I don't necessarily want the audience to know my motivation.
The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other people.
That first play I did in New York, Rogelio Martinez's 'When It's Cocktail Time in Cuba,' I played a young Fidel Castro.
I think it's good to be a little more fearless in saying what you feel. In not being scared of the repercussions of that.
My dad was a huge Bob Dylan fan, so we listened to his music, Cat Stevens, Simon & Garfunkel, and all that kind of stuff.
I'm very happy to have the heritage that I do, but I'm not wanting to be 'the Latino actor.' I just want to be 'an actor.'
It's nice to create a character, not just within two scenes, but within the journey of a whole movie. It's fun to do that.
There's a reason why actors are always dying to work with the Coens. They just set the stage for you to do their best work.