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" Humans are mutants, everything's a mutant - things that evolve. "

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" I played guitar and bass. I didn't do much vocals, although I did have one band where I was the lead singer. But that was when I was in college. "

" I'm open to the idea of doing more musicals if it's one that I really enjoy. "

" My dad always played a lot of music, so I heard him playing all the time, and then I decided that I wanted to learn to play guitar, so I got an acoustic and started taking lessons. I wanted to be able to shred like Yngwie Malmsteen. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The songs I've written that are the strongest, I'm like: 'I don't know where that came from. It just kind of popped out.' You feel you can't take a whole lot of credit for it. I didn't purposefully will it into existence. "

" 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. "

" 'Drive' is a genre piece, and a lot of times we don't get really sophisticated genre films. "

" The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other people. "

" In the 1960s, there was a forward way of speaking and inflection. "

" I think romantic passion is wanting a little something in return. "

" I grew up in a very devoutly Christian home. "

" Advice? Look at your pay statements. "

" You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there. "

" 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. "

" I think Shakespeare really got it. He was the first one to introduce psychology to villains and give them a real point of view. "

" I like films that take their time a little bit more and don't show you all of their cards right away, characters that are conflicted and contradicting and seem one way at first and then suddenly turn out to be something else. "

" I'm really sick of anthems. Every song has to be a very big singalong thing - it feels very Eighties. There are a lot of 'whoah whoa whoahs,' this stadium thing. You're even getting that from some of the 'folk' groups. I can't stand it. "

" All of my high school issues are resolved! "

" That first play I did in New York, Rogelio Martinez's 'When It's Cocktail Time in Cuba,' I played a young Fidel Castro. "

" There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices. "

" I started off thinking that I just needed one shot to prove myself, but then I realised that I was only going to learn about acting by doing it. "

" I get attached to things: I wear the same jeans for a year. "

" I don't know if they were all functioning, but I did play in a bunch of bands. "

" Our morality is based on so many factors: of where we were born, who we were born to, what values were instilled in us, what values we chose, the way that our lives have shaped us. That dictates so much of what we assume is our morality, and also the culture, all of these things. "

" I wouldn't mind seeing The Smiths reform. That would be cool. "

" I was always - maybe stupidly so - very confident. "

" What you wear can be such an indicator of so many things. You know, how you feel, how you want others to perceive you. So, that is an absolutely essential part of building a character. "

" My dad was a huge Bob Dylan fan, so we listened to his music, Cat Stevens, Simon & Garfunkel, and all that kind of stuff. "