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" I certainly like working harder than a lot of my peers. The trick is embracing it. "
Than
Like
Lot
" I do have a concern about projecting. I've never projected or had any reason to project before. In fact, the camera has only gotten closer to me going from TV to film. "
Never
Project
Reason
" I do like any kind of project that has both comedy and drama in it because in life you don't have one day where everything is funny then the next day everything is dramatic. "
Day
Funny
Comedy
" I don't talk about my personal life with the press. "
Press
Life
Talk
" I don't want to be an editor! I don't want to direct; I'd be a horrible director. I don't want to write - I have a 'story by' credit on one film I did. And I don't want to edit at all. "
Director
Film
Did
" I don't want to be an editor - I want to be really forward about that. I would be a horrible editor. "
Want
Really
Horrible
" I feel bad for young actors who become huge stars too quickly, because you haven't had a chance to practice your craft a lot. "
Stars
You
Bad
" I have a really dry sense of humor. I don't think it's funny when people wink at the camera. That's more of an actor thing, just committing to whatever the thing is. "
Humor
People
Funny
" I have a rule that I won't Google my own name. "
My Own
Google
Name
" I'm not a comedian, but I love the comedians who know when to get off the stage. "
Off
Who
Stage
" I'm not just friends with fellow actors, but I find that a lot of people are out here in L.A. I go out of my way to make sure that's not the case, but I do have a lot of friends who are actors. "
Go
Friends
Find
" I'm very social. It's just most of my friends are not actors. "
Friends
Very
Social
" I really loved when I started doing '70s Show,' though I had never acted before, so it was a great training ground being on a sitcom. "
Training
Doing
Great
" I think it's good to have a nice, healthy group of people all doing different things. A lot of my friends don't even work in Hollywood; they just happen to live in L.A. "
Live
Work
Think
" It is strange when you're a loser in college, which I was, to then get your own show. "
College
Own
Show
" It's hard to understand the films that you're in, because you never truly get to see them. "
Get
Understand
Hard
" It's kind of like, I love doing tons of different things. The only thing I hate is not being in ensembles. "
Kind
Like
Love
" I worked at Suncoast Video for two years during the summer in high school. "
Two
High
High School
" I would be a terrible director, I could never write anything. One of my great strengths is that I know all of my weaknesses. "
Great
Never
Strengths
" Most of my freshman year at USC, I'd just been partying, and I had zero direction. "
Partying
Year
Zero
" My dad was a businessman, and he would say, 'Work for free at the best company. Don't get paid a lot of money to work with the worst people.' And that's exactly how I see my career. "
Free
Work
People
" My folks still live in my childhood home, and so when I'm home with them, I usually feel the best. "
Childhood
Home
Live
" Sometimes I get mad when I think that I only have maybe 40 or 50 more springs in New York. When I miss one, 'cause I'm on location for a film, I wanna go, 'That's it, that just cost me one of my 50!' "
New
New York
Think
" That's the best thing about being an actor. If you're in a baseball movie, you walk away knowing way more about baseball, or if you're in a sci-fi film, you learn way more about Comic-Con, and so I loved all that. "
Learn
Baseball
Best
" The 30-year-old male is about as far away from Valentine's Day as you can get in the human experience. "
Day
Human
You
" The great thing about a sitcom is that you're in front of a live audience, so you really get in touch with what audience reaction is, but also there are lots of elements of film that you're dealing with, and there's kind of a great boot camp or graduate school mentality to it, because you're going to suck. "
Live
Audience
Great
" The script for 'In Good Company' was the first one I ever showed my dad. "
Company
Ever
First
" The script is a blueprint for the film - there are very few bad scripts that make good movies. If you really like the character and understand the utility it serves within the movie, that's a part of my process. "
Character
Movies
Process
" The whole acting thing is a buffet. One, in terms of role choice and movie choice, I like to do lots of different things, and I think that's the whole fun of it. But I also see it as a buffet in terms of the character. "
Character
Fun
Choice
" Working on 'Lonely, I'm Not' - I love the material so much, and it's spring in New York, so I'm walking home whistling every day. "
New York
New
Walking
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