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" Advice? Look at your pay statements. "
Advice
Statements
Look
" All of my high school issues are resolved! "
Issues
High
School
" A lot of very successful businessmen share some of these sociopathic traits - a lack of empathy, seeing people as commodities, projecting an air of sincerity when everything is actually calculated. "
Seeing
Successful
Empathy
" A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear. "
Weird
You
More
" Anybody who dedicates himself to exploring the human condition, there's always a detached eye that's watching. In any situation, a little part of me is observing it, to see if there are any raw materials to create something else later. "
Me
Situation
Eye
" Anything that's made by humans is about humans, whether it's about gods or aliens or anything; it's about some sort of expressive nature about us. "
Anything
Us
Made
" A personal game-changer was when Ridley Scott cast me as King John, the King of England, for 'Robin Hood.' "
Personal
Hood
Me
" Being someone with Latin roots, so many doors are constantly closed for you because people put you in a category, and the thing I've always wanted to avoid is categorisation. "
Someone
Doors
Many
" Cats are impossible to work with. They're just very difficult because you can't really train them. They're not really interested in whatever you want them to do. Dogs want to please you; cats only want to please themselves. "
Work
Impossible
Cats
" 'Drive' is a genre piece, and a lot of times we don't get really sophisticated genre films. "
Really
Piece
Get
" Every frame of a Coen brothers movie is filled with history and meaning, and the deeper you go, the deeper you get. That's why their movies stand up particularly well to repeated viewing and investigation. "
You
Stand
Meaning
" For me, with a character, you start with the shoes. "
Start
You
Shoes
" Getting a record deal is a meaningless thing now. "
Deal
Meaningless
Getting
" How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality. "
Play
Stand
Quality
" Humans are mutants, everything's a mutant - things that evolve. "
Evolve
Humans
Things
" I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York. "
Musicians
New York
Friends
" I always joked with my parents. I told them, 'If I don't make it as an actor, my fallback is musician.' "
Parents
Musician
Make
" I always like teaser trailers because they don't give too much away, you know? They give just a flavor of what the thing is. "
Away
You
Always
" I come from a place where everything about me, even my body language, is saying: I mean you no harm. I smile, I laugh. Basic stuff for most people. "
Me
Smile
Saying
" I don't know if they were all functioning, but I did play in a bunch of bands. "
Did
Bands
Know
" I don't know why people are so obsessed with finding out stuff before the movie comes out. It's so much more fun to just go. I mean, I don't do that. I don't go looking for stuff that I'm interested in, you know, to try and find out pictures and what the movie's about. It's so much more fun to be surprised. "
Know
People
You
" I feel like being an artist and being an activist are separate things; I know some people who feel very differently. "
People
Feel
Know
" If you can find a way that your principles are actually the strategically smartest thing to do, you've kind of figured it out. "
Principles
Kind
Way
" If you start trying to communicate ideas, I think you don't allow the audience to see themselves. "
Ideas
Trying
Think
" I get attached to things: I wear the same jeans for a year. "
Wear
Things
Same
" I grew up in a very devoutly Christian home. "
Home
Christian
Very
" I grow up in the States, in Miami, but I was born in Guatemala, and my father's Cuban, and in 'Body of Lies,' I played an Iraqi. "
Body
Miami
Grow Up
" I guess 'Scarface' was the Cuban Al Pacino. "
Al
Guess
Al Pacino
" I had a great conversation with Tom Waits, of all people. "
Tom
Great
Conversation
" I had an audition where Josh Brolin was pelting me with his personality. I didn't get the part. "
Get
Where
Personality
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