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“Cameras aren't guns. They can't really hurt you.”
“There aren't many things that are universally cool, and it's cool not to litter. I'd never do it.”
“There are a whole bunch of roles where people say, 'Oh, you're playing yourself.' I guess it's kind of a compliment. Or people say, 'Oh, man, you just roll out of bed and do that.' The work is to make it look effortless. That's the hard part.”
“The best advice comes from people who don't give advice.”
“My wife and I don't compete. We know each other's preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That's what friends do.”
“Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they're built to be buoyant. It's easy to demean them.”
“When you have good friends you've been around, every time they talk, you don't give them your full attention. You don't look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you're listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.”
“For me, one of the toughest things about Valentine's Day is that it gets geared up as the day to profess your love. See, T-E-S-T - that's a bad word that doesn't go with L-O-V-E.”
“Water's never clumsy.”
“I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I'm trying to pull out of the ground that doesn't want to come out? I know I'll win.”
“There's a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal is to try and close the gaps. What's the biggest compliment is if I read a review and it's exactly what I wrote down in my diary before ever filming it. That's really cool. That's the biggest signifier of closing the gaps.”
“Starting at about, I guess, forever, I've always looked forward to getting older. When I was 14, I couldn't wait to be 16 and get a driver's license.”
“I have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever, I'm for anything life-affirmative. I'm for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who's different.”
“Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It's also the dangerous part and it's an ugly emotion that hurts.”
“What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and 'going' with this girl, 'Is this true love?'”
“I don't want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.”
“There are certain nights you and your image just aren't in the same bed.”
“When I see grace in a woman, that's very sexy. You can tell by how someone moves or their rhythm.”
“I'm a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.”
“We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there's enough room for all of us to succeed.”