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I don't like being lied to.
Yeah, I'm a spiritual person.
A heroic nature is very Greek.
I just don't watch a lot of TV.
Musical theater is one of my passions.
You never want to judge your character.
I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.
It's very hard to maintain focus in the gym.
I like the not knowing of what the next job is.
My father is an anchor and my brother is as well.
I've got whole years of unfortunate clothing in '80s.
You don't ever see a thriller with a spiritual backbone.
You're defined by your older brothers' or sisters' music.
There's just a natural instinct to want to be great, I think.
Emasculation does seem to be a theme in the roles that I choose.
I don't concentrate on if a moment is scary or not. That's not my job.
The thing about abs is if you hit them daily, you feel more put-together.
I love making movies, but there's nothing like being in front of an audience.
I think you have to pick and choose what is most important to tell the story.
There's such an immediate intimacy with film that you just don't get in theater.
I think the balance is between what you can get, what you want and what wants you.
The great thing about doing theater is that you get to do it better the next night.
For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
In a normal movie, you'd never see one guy talk for an entire page, whether good or bad.
I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time.
A wide receiver like me wouldn't have won. The quarterback - or even the running back - always wins.
I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.
When I look at a character, whether he's good or bad, one scene or 10 scenes, I just have to find my way in.
I love to go to casinos with my wife. I play poker, and she's an old-fashioned slot queen. She even has a visor.
I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme for your high school years.
If you look back on the breakups that you've had, whether it's a long relationship or a one-night stand, it's always awkward.
For me, I always have to establish a reality for the character. In very actor-y terms, you just have to understand his reality.
When you shoot a movie so quickly you can't really afford to shoot a bunch of extra footage because you don't have that luxury.
You have to know what you're shooting. Don't just make your movie in the editing room and just get everything you can on the day.
When you're playing the good guy, you want to find the dirty parts - and when you're playing the bad guy, you want to find the vulnerability.
Honestly, if you're just going to be the love interest then at least let it be a really good movie. Not every role is going to be Hamlet, I know that.
I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.
With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.
I didn't win prom king. By that point, I'd quit sports except for soccer, so I was really just a theater guy. I totally lost to the captain of the football team.
I did have Skidz overalls. Remember Skidz, those baggy plaid pants that look like pajamas? So I did rock overalls, but not in purple velvet. I couldn't find those.
It's frustrating sometimes for actors because you slam it out and you have a great time, you think it's funny, and then for whatever reason the movie doesn't come together.
You have your vision and you need to be focused, but you have to listen. I never felt a sense that the wheels were going to come off because we're all friends and family. It was all good.
Somebody can paint with a fine brush like Monet and do millions of little dots or somebody can splatter it up there like Kandinsky or Jackson Pollock and go "Yep, that's art." That's okay.
It was always acting for me, since I was about 15. My middle brother always wanted to be a news anchor, so we always felt that he'd be the one to take over for dad, so we could go and do our thing.
For me, it doesn't matter whether it's a comedy, a Western or horror. As long as you've got a good story to tell, the genre almost doesn't matter. As an actor playing the role, it's all rooted in reality.
I like it when my wife is in her jeans, with very little makeup. But, I also appreciate the range - the different ways she can look. The moment she walks out all dressed up and... whoa! That's always good.
You know, I gotta be honest. I have not done a lot of CGI work. I just haven't. I mean, there were hundreds of effects in Watchmen, and I probably dealt with almost none of them, because all my stuff was very practical.
If I ever get looks on the street, which, for the record, is almost never, it's rarely because they think I'm someone they saw in a movie. More often someone sees me and thinks, 'Hey, was that guy my waiter the other night?'
I just want to do as many different genres as I can. I think that's part of it... to not get pigeon-holed because if one of them breaks out and becomes a big hit then typically people want to keep putting you in that kind of role.
I grew up around media so for me I've always been interested in that topic, whether it's a complete satire or a documentary. I love anything that touches on the state of information versus entertainment and what's newsworthy and what's not.