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" Even if my father wasn't speaking to me, he would never, ever miss a baseball game. "

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" Acting has given me a way to channel my angst. I feel like an overweight, pimply faced kid a lot of the time - and finding a way to access that insecurity, and put it toward something creative is incredibly rewarding. I feel very lucky. "

" My tattoo is of a cannon in Vancouver that I got in a fleeting moment of stupidity maybe 14 years ago. A lot of people have really beautiful tattoos, and I get real tattoo envy. But then other people basically just treat them like bumper stickers for their bodies. "

" My career has been an inch at a time. "

" It's very tricky to throw a morally flexible character onto the screen and have an audience empathize. It's always an exercise in restraint. "

" Like a lot of people, I've got a self-loathing streak that's alive and well. It acts as a de facto engine when I'm working, but it also has its extraordinary pitfalls, too. "

" If you ask me to describe my relationship, I mean - words are too clumsy to accurately describe how I feel in that regard, particularly in an interview. It's a strange thing. "

" I understand the climate we live in and why people are curious. But it's just tough and almost emotionally violent - for anyone, I think - to see your personal life summarized in a sentence. "

" I come from a family of cops, and all of them share that understanding that they put their lives on the line. "

" Every time I've gotten myself into trouble, it's because I'm choosing a project based on a long-term career goal as opposed to something that speaks to me at the moment. "

" When your dad's a cop, calling 911 is really just like calling Dad at work. "

" A producer is someone who actually calls the shots. An executive producer is just a guy that eats more food at craft service. "

" I had to wear that suit, so I put in my required time in the gym. But I'm not one of those actors who romanticizes his trials working out and brags that he can bench press a panda now. "

" I grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia. "

" I have a discipline that has served me very well in my career and in my personal life... and that's gotten stronger as I've gotten older. I've always felt if I don't just have a natural knack for it, I will just out-discipline the competition if I have to - work harder than anybody else. "

" We started training a month before the movie started and then by five months in, we were at our peak shape. "

" There's a very real possibility in this industry of going out and leading your life and then going home and being a voyeur of your own life. You can literally go watch yourself - where you went last night, what you did, what the things that people presuppose about you. It's kind of crazy. "

" Making a mix CD - albeit slightly old school - is generally a pretty cool gift and something I like to receive, or giving someone a book that moved you. Writing an inscription inside makes it even better. "

" I see guys with, like, eyebrow art, and I wanna tell them, 'You don't have to go too crazy on your brows. Take it easy, man!' "

" Any kind of crisis can be good. It wakes you up. "

" I think you have to let go of this idea that you can be precious about everything, and let it be the abstract mess that it is. "

" I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my parents on a regular basis! "

" The stunts on the ground I can do, but I've never been good with heights. "

" When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment. "

" I can't say I've ever finished a film and been particularly thrilled with myself or patted myself on the back. And maybe that's what keeps me going, and that's a good thing. It speaks volumes about how I perceive myself. "

" We might be too proud to admit it as guys, but we still need to learn how to manage responsibility, how to face our challenges. "

" My father was a police officer before he retired. One of my brothers is also a police officer, and I think they kind of expected I would do something along those lines, like become a fireman or something. "

" It was comical because you're at a firing range, all these people are so seriously shooting their little guns. "

" I think everybody involved in a movie thinks about the box office. It's the 'biz' part of showbiz. "

" I think we know too much about actors as it is and their personal lives and it's this information age where we're stimulated constantly by the celebrity buzz effect or whatever it is, these web sites and blogs and different things. "

" I think there's escapist moviemaking, and we want to be captivated and taken away. If it's done right, you can craft an incredible film. There have been superhero films that I think are brilliant pieces of art. "