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“I have always weirdly seen myself as more of a character actor. I have never been suave. I could never see myself playing James Bond. I suppose I could fake it, but I am certainly not James Bond in real life.”
“It would be cool to be invisible, but I'm afraid of what people would say about me if they didn't know I was there. Some things are better left unknown.”
“I've always loved watches my whole life. When I was growing up, I always thought of having a great watch as that next step - of making it, of a rite of passage.”
“When I moved to L.A., I had somebody go, 'Alright. Fix your hair. Wear this.' Like, changed my look a little bit. I kind of came into myself a little better when I moved to L.A.”
“Early in your career, you feel like there is a formula, a path you have to take. You have to do this movie because this person directed it and you have to be associated with these people. In some ways, I have thrown that out.”
“'The Notebook' made me cry! It got me.”
“I was with my wife for five years before we got married, so we've been together since I was 22.”
“The more ridiculous the character is, the more sincerity you have to bring to it.”
“As an actor, you can go in, and you give your best performance, but if you hand that performance to ten different directors and ten different editors, you get ten different movies.”
“It's about balance. Do a movie that's good for your career, then do a one that gets good box office.”
“Every time I read a script, I see the movie in my head, and I try to see the best movie in my head because everybody interprets the movie differently.”
“One of the big struggles for an actor is sometimes you have to take work that you don't necessarily want to do so you can pay rent.”
“When you have kids and get older, it goes beyond flowers and chocolate. It's about waking up with a baby, letting her sleep in, and making a coffee for her when she wakes up. To me, being romantic is putting someone else first and thinking about what makes them happy.”
“When I was younger - up until I was 19 years old and in college - I was surrounded with people in high school who felt like they knew what they wanted to do with their lives, and that was intimidating to me because I didn't.”
“I've done some films that, on paper, were really interesting and special. And for some reason, when they got on screen, it just didn't work. Well, I didn't get to watch the film before I decided to do it.”
“I didn't want to go get a job or get a degree in business or marketing, or whatever all my friends were getting degrees in.”
“Over the years, I've learned that you can have fun with the fabrics and other elements, but if it's not tailored right, you'll blow it.”
“I am starting to get into this whole idea of caring about what I wear. There was a time in my life when I could not care less about fashion.”
“As an actor, you always think your last job is your last job, and you're always doubting yourself and worried that people will see you're a fraud.”
“I am constantly hustling and finding new things. You try to manage so you don't look back and see huge gaps of time that you missed with your family.”