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I was diagnosed as bipolar.
I'm a big fan of public trust.
Never take advice, including this.
All of Aaron Sorkin's characters are so smart.
I don't want to do procedural: I want to do longform.
I'm normally a pretty loquacious, kind of fun person.
I want to bring love handles and eating sandwiches back.
I love to watch human beings figuring out their limitations.
I've always been passionate about the stories I want to tell.
A lot of the characters I gravitate towards feel like outsiders.
I'm a man. I'm not gonna wear dad jeans or whatever you call them.
With 'Deadpool' and 'Logan,' they are trying to do different things.
Untangling Christmas lights is the true tragedy of 'Stranger Things.'
The perils of success at a young age is being afraid to make a mistake.
One of my impulses in acting has always to make people feel less alone.
I can like Michael Keaton's Batman, and I can like Christian Bale's Batman.
I am a dude who is meant to be on a couch in New York City thumbing through magazines.
As much as I can, I like to curate the information the people know personally about me.
I'm a bit of a strange human being - I love to work. I love art. I love self-expression.
I think that's what 'Stranger Things' does, it opens you up - it has a real beating heart to it.
When I was in 8th grade, I saw Branagh's 'Henry V' in the Paris Theater, and it changed my life.
I don't even know what memes are, I'm, like, an old person, so I don't really know what a meme is.
I don't associate success with happiness, and I don't take it to heart, like, 'Oh, I'm so special.'
I tend to find that movies have become so slick that I have trouble identifying with the characters.
I'm very interested in the drama of the leading man being someone who is incapable, becoming capable.
I feel, in storytelling, people are so afraid that you won't get it unless you pound them over the head.
I really like big swashbuckling superhero films, but I feel like that Marvel universe is not adult enough.
Netflix sees people as users or subscribers or customers. Historically, networks have seen people as viewers.
The more I work in the film business, the more I see that those guys, the directors, have the most fun on set.
I can like Jack Nicolson's Joker, and I can like Heath Ledger's Joker. There's other Jokers I don't have to like.
I actually went back and watched all of 'True Detective''s Season One again, which I think is a true masterpiece.
People who are deep thinkers, who have sort of a weird way of looking at the universe, are wildly attractive to me.
The fact is, for years, I had been trapped in a certain narcissism and a desire to have a certain body and look sexy.
The Duffer Brothers are so attentive to story and detail while being wildly respectful of me and what I bring to the process.
You gotta do things your own way. You have to find your own path. You have to take what appeals to you and leave all the rest.
I'm terrified of the unknown, which is a driving force for me. I like this idea that the things that terrify us also draw us in.
I was sober for, like, a year and a half, and I was 25, and I actually did have a manic episode, and I was diagnosed as bipolar.
People are three-dimensional. They're not good or bad. They're not righteous or unrighteous. They are a million different things.
I did a movie with Jamie Foxx that was kind of action, and, you know, Jim Hopper's a little bit action; he does throw a good punch.
I would like to see sexiness sort of embodied in people's real bodies, as opposed to those bodies that are just full of narcissism.
Those Duffer Brothers really know how to tell a story, and I think it makes you want to watch. 'Stranger Things' is remarkably watchable.
With a lot of projects, you never know if it's going to be executed properly. And also, you never know if people are going to respond to it.
When you push and pull heavy things, your body thinks it's going to die, and so it's like, 'I better get bigger, in case we do that tomorrow.'
I grew up doing regional Shakespeare, and when Hamlet sees the ghost of his father, there's something about that that you don't really do in film anymore.
We are united in that we are all human beings, and we are all together on this horrible, painful, joyous, exciting, and mysterious ride that is being alive.
I'm around 6'4' and 240 pounds. So I rarely feel that intimidated by other men. But I've got to give it up to Terry Bradshaw. That guy is a complete bulldog.
I'm just trying to give the best human expression that I can to any particular genre, which could be comedy, could be drama, could be horror, could be thriller.
The fact that I got famous and became a sex symbol around my normal, frumpy, love-handled self is so gratifying - and, dare I say, culturally gratifying as well.
I loved 'True Detective' so much in Season 1, and then when the Season 2 monstrosity came around, I was like, 'What is this show? What have you done to this show?'
I'm always fascinated emotionally in the moment that someone pulls a gun, even a cop. That action - I don't know that I, personally, as a human being, could do it.