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Oh, all those ridiculous people with zero talent who spend their lives making sure everyone knows their name. Those stupid, stupid people.
Music I do just for me.
I'm a simple, simple man.
I'll always build houses.
I'll take any risk there is.
I'm just happy to be working.
I want to be a good human being.
I want my personal life to be personal.
I was an athlete when I was growing up.
I'm an actor for hire, and I go do a job.
I don't change. The things around me change.
The star thing, the celebrity thing, is new to me.
I'm blessed to have cool roles in these big movies.
We don't want to go to a movie and sit in a lecture.
People love to yammer on about things that aren't real.
I've done movies that nobody's seen, and that's no fun.
Getting to play with Thor's hammer while he stroked my bow
We want to make people feel something after they buy that ticket.
I don't want to play a bad guy who doesn't have a bit of good in him.
I want to not do anything I've done before. That can come in any form.
When I was growing up, I wasn't taught how to feel or communicate feelings.
When you get praise from someone that you really admire it's really surreal.
I light candles because I want to have candles lit, not because I need to see!
I don't do well with expectation in my life. All I can do is do the best that I can do.
I'm able to really enjoy the wonderful things happening to me and that's a great blessing.
There's too much down time making movies. That leads to boredom. And that leads to trouble.
I guess I just have one of those resting faces that makes me look like I want to beat you up.
Not every actor gives their life to do this job. Some just do it as a job. Well, it's my life.
I like to play unpredictable characters, and I like to be unpredictable in what movie I'll do.
Not looking really to do some big giant action movie that's just trying to make a lot of money.
Other people can think ahead all they want. I just focus on the task at hand and try to move on.
I'm not very good at taking compliments. It's better than getting slapped in the face, I suppose.
I live my life through fear. If I'm afraid of it I'll do it just so I'm not afraid of it anymore.
I know it's a cliche but I never wanted to be famous. I don't believe anybody wants to be famous.
I'm attracted to those kinds of roles that could be good or could be bad, and you just don't know.
I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place.
I've got to be active in life, and it's the same when I'm doing stunts in a movie: I'll do anything.
Yeah it feels a bit more tangible, I suppose, even though you're in a green box for part of the time.
Accents can be a great tool to tell a story - but if you do it wrong, it pulls you right out of the movie.
I used to hang out at karaoke bars all the time. It was the most fun you could have when you had no money.
So I take a little sleeping pill, pop it and realize nothing's happening - but something else was happening.
In the 'Hurt Locker' there's a lot of me in there, a sense of humor, a man of few words and a lot of action.
I don't really think there's much difference between a character actor and a leading man besides aesthetics.
I know what I like and what I want, and I can sit and enjoy every 10 minutes that go by. And truly enjoy it.
I like to stay busy, I like to stay focused, and I like to stay creative. Without being creative I'd be dead.
We want to have movies be seen. So, first and foremost, what's the world? So we can get it onto a big screen.
I only scream and scratch when something's only 'really good' or 'good', I want to be great, or let's go home.
I like repressed characters. That gives me a lot of freedom to make a lot of different choices through subtleties.
I feel connected to that idea of wanting to belong to something, to have a sense of purpose as a man on the planet.
What matters to me is learning and growing, and getting to do what I love to do. As long as I can do that, I'm happy.
