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Acting isn't something that I think about very consciously, somehow that just doesn't work for me. I just kind of feel my way into it.
I'm not strong-willed enough or unkind enough... or maybe simply not wise enough to tell a journalist that a subject is out of bounds.
I don't know a single person who doesn't regret the things that they did to hurt their parents, or the things they didn't say to them.
There are only a few TV networks that really invest in production in the way that I think they should. HBO, obviously, is one of them.
I have, I think, eight mentors. It's crazy, but I need them. They are all really important to me. They keep me grounded and advise me.
Every role is physical to a certain extent, but as a viewer, I don't respond well to actors doing more than they need to tell a story.
My proudest moment was when I was in high school, some jackass tried to give me a wedgy. I came prepared, I went commando. It tickled.
I will wear the same thing for three years straight unless somebody, like, forces me not to. It's like, hey, I got this Gucci sweater.
If you're out there and need help, please seek it. Be proud of your valiant day-to-day struggle. There is no shame in needing support.
If you laugh, we just do another take. Laughter is too rare nowadays. If you can bust a gut, let it go, and we'll just go back to one.
There is a lot of pretty horrific stuff that happens, and I don't usually get those kinds of characters who get to go to those places.
That's the power of television. You come into people's homes every week, and that creates a familiarity and a false sense of intimacy.
My mom and dad used to tell me, 'You've got to see this film,' and they were influential to a high degree of the films I saw as a kid.
How long you can continue to be good at something is how much you believe in yourself and how much hard work you do with the training.
It's not like I am a junkie that wants to throw himself from very tall buildings, but some people are, and I love them kind of people.
I'd go back, yeah. I don't care, I got a kid, man - I'll sell tampons. I mean, there's no selling-out once you get a kid. I got a kid.
Thoughts will change and shift just like the wind and the water when you're on the boat; thoughts are no different than anything else.
As filmmakers, we're constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we're telling.
I think Michigan keeps you sane and on an even keel through the ups and downs. In Michigan, I do fireworks, shovel snow and live life.
It's nice to play a character that has a soulful, dependent, close relationship. It must mean my character is interesting in some way.
I'm not Mr. Debonair Suave. I'm just a regular boy who goofs around, pulls pranks, and makes jokes. That doesn't sound very hot to me.
If you could do 'Moving Too Fast' and 'Nobody Needs To Know' really, really well, you kind of knew you would make it someday, somehow!
It seems to work out that following anything you do, you are pretty much approached with versions of the last thing people saw you in.
One of my mission statements with all of my art has been to stop the world for people. I want to stop the worrying and stop the world.
Wherever a writer grew up, they're obviously influenced by that area, and I'm sure their characters are pulled from those experiences.
My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession.
Improv seemed to replace stand-up, which was very big before that. Stand-up comedy was real hot in the late '80s and through the '90s.
That's why I like the scenes where we're just in the kitchen having breakfast, because it's the interaction between people. The chaos.
There's nothing more Broadway than 'Hedwig.' It's very family-friendly. There's innuendo and stuff, but not more than you'd see on TV.
I remember seeing a stage version of Plato's 'Symposium' and being really moved because it was written by a man rather than a culture.
I always wanted to be in the limelight, and I found I could get it by being on the stage. That was the beginning of everything for me.
People just do the strangest things when they believe they're entitled. But they do even stranger things when they just plain believe.
One of the best lessons I've ever gotten in my life is to anticipate nothing because it's always worse in your head than it really is.
My childhood was completely dominated by Bill Clinton and the OJ trial. I don't think we had a family dinner where one didn't come up.
Me, I'm dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you have to watch out for.
I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face.
For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I’m human and I’m normal – well, semi-normal.
For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I'm human and I'm normal - well, semi-normal.
My forte is playing drunks down the ages. When my agent rings me about a role, I don't ask what the part is, but what century it's in.
I like playing characters that, you know, a couple could go see the movie and one person could love him and one person could hate him.
You really feel an obligation to someone when they're trusting you to do something, and you promise that you'll come through for them.
It's not that I don't enjoy a good mystery that comes and goes in a hour. I do, but God, 'Breaking Bad' and 'Saul' unfold like novels.
I can talk to anybody but when it comes to somebody that I like, then I turn into like this five-year-old kindergartener in a sandbox.
Dating can be painful, can be great, can be confusing, can be weird, but I don't do it online because I'm not really an online person.
When it comes to chemistry with actors, I always feel chemistry is not something that comes and goes. You either have it or you don't.
I work free-weights and do circuit training with my trainer 4-5 times a week. I also train in Brazilian Ju Jitsu several times a week.
I don't blame folks for not wanting to put me in their movies or whatever. I understand if their audiences had an association with me.
When I first started, I wasn't really into movies that much unless it was an action-packed gunslinger with naked women here and there.
I kind of grew up with high goals for myself; I intended to play pro baseball. Growing up in Texas, Hollywood isn't much of a reality.
The message I always received was God is good. You're bad. Try harder. I pretty much kept my hand up at anything that represented God.