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Whoever controls your energy controls your destiny. 100 percent renewable energy is 100 percent American.
It's been up, down, and sideways for me, man. I could become a huge star, or I could get cancer tomorrow.
I normally don't have that much confidence. I usually am trying to talk to directors out of giving me a job.
I always like having kid energy around. I think it's good for a movie, even when you're doing dramatic stuff.
As an actor, you can do everything. I grew up in the theater, and you could do a musical, a comedy, a tragedy.
That's what I love about music...all these banalities suddenly turn into these beautiful, effervescent pearls.
I'm very nervous in the beginning and then I get in there and start doing my work and I feel more comfortable.
Burning natural gas will not save us from climate change. It's the same as burning any other carbon-based fuel.
It's a point of pride that no one would treat me any differently because I'm an actor than if I was a gardener.
My mom was a hairdresser. My aunt was a hairdresser. My brother was a hairdresser. My sisters are hairdressers.
My mom was a hairstylist, but she quit doing that to raise the kids - there were four of us. There was no money.
Tom [McCarthy] said to me, "Buddy, you got an Oscar nomination through that haircut! That's the real feat, man."
I enjoyed growing up part of my life in Virginia Beach. We had the ocean and the beach and a beautiful landscape.
I didn't like the distance between my family and myself that I was experiencing from having to work all the time.
I remember riding my bike down the boardwalk with nowhere to go and looking at the girls. It was really innocent.
You really can have your dreams and at the same time have a family. But it has to be a really deliberate practice.
'What Doesn't Kill You' is a really great movie that was little seen but, I think, is one of my personal favorites.
No great advancement has ever been kept at bay because of ideology, nor greed. Eventually progress moves us forward.
After the brain tumor happened, I realized I love acting, I've always loved it, I may never get a chance to do it again.
For the longest time, I was Scott Ruffalo's brother. I mean, he was the mayor of Beverly Hills. He was just so beloved there.
There's a misperception about actors that we actually choose the roles we end up doing - it's more that we're chosen for them.
We're warriors, this culture, and we're very puritanical about sex and very embracing about violence and I don't know why that is.
When you have to fight for the things you love, you have to measure the value of those things in ways you may not in any other way.
I think where people get into trouble is hiding and feeling ashamed about what they don't have any control over in the first place.
Whatever we want to think about American business - work hard, tell the truth, have morality - it's a myth. There's a lot of graft.
Today, wind is the cheapest energy in America; solar is not far behind. In time, fossil fuels will only get more and more expensive.
That was an interesting aspect: to go to war with the Church to fight for the very thing that the Church was meant to give to people.
I'm a very hands-on father. I like being a hands-on father. I am probably more like one of my kids in my family, but the dominating kid.
I don't know, one out of every two marriages ends up in divorce so there's a lot of great people out there who people aren't happy with.
People are like, 'How does Julianne Moore look naked?' I don't know. She was pressed up against me the whole time. I couldn't look at her.
My kids get very upset with me when I leave to do film work, but they have a lot of patience with me when I leave to do environmental work.
I got into acting because I wanted to act and I love acting. That's my true north: to be creative and to be challenged in what I love to do.
It's a mature thing to understand that your pictures of a lifetime together with someone were... well, the reality is not what we're taught.
Climate change is the greatest threat to our existence in our short history on this planet. Nobody's going to buy their way out of its effects.
What makes Hulk afraid? It's himself. It's a version of himself that's weak. It's a version of himself that's vulnerable. It's a child inside of him.
Actors, you kind of have these ebbs and flows. These moments where you're in your glory - where you're really cracking - and moments where you're not.
You value the thing you are fighting for, but then you learn to value the time it takes to do it and the time you have off. Both of which are precious.
Certainly, it's very easy to fall in love with cash. If you're going to make all your decisions based on cash, you're going to have a pretty naffy career.
Artists have always been the front line; that's part of our responsibility. But a lot of the big actors come out, they get slammed, and then they retreat.
The fact that I can make a living and support three kids and my wife doing what I love to do... who does that? That's golden. It's a very privileged thing.
We'll engage in pretty extreme violence in the world but, you know, the one thing that comes to humans as easily as eating or breathing or sleeping, is sex.
Trying to find the story within the story was hard. Filmmaking is such a reductive process in a strange way and you keep whittling away to what is essential.
It's a difficult undertaking. I've been married for four years and I see this movie as a cautionary tale about people who've gone deeply out of communication.
I think of marriage as a garden. You have to tend to it. Respect it, take care of it, feed it. Make sure everyone is getting the right amount of, um, sunlight.
I have a carpool with a corrections officer and a construction worker. My kids get to see that we're not segregated based on wealth or standing. It's very cool.
Studio movies are looking more like independent movies and independent movies are looking more like studio movies, and I think cinema is better now because of it.
When you're on the road, you sort of go crazy and being away from your family you get stir-crazy and lonely, so I try to keep myself involved as much as possible.
Shakespeare does a great job of taking 5,000-year-old stories and turning them into modern pieces that are true to the original essence but are completely remade.
But, the relationships that I see work - As long as they're telling the truth, and saying the things that you don't ever want to have to say to another human being.
I don't like this idea of Method. I come from that school, but what I was taught was that it's your imagination. You do your homework, and you use your imagination.