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" I enjoyed growing up part of my life in Virginia Beach. We had the ocean and the beach and a beautiful landscape. We were outdoors all the time and we played outside. "

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" Also, stick around. Don't lose your heart, just keep going, keep at it. "

" I was an introverted kid; I liked my time alone. And the rest of my family is pretty extroverted, so I felt like a bit of an oddball. They're very gregarious and charming and charismatic people. I always felt like I was struggling as a young person. I think everyone was very surprised to hear that I wanted to be an actor. "

" A lot of people are living with mental illness around them. Either you love one or you are one. "

" I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself. "

" What makes Hulk afraid? It's himself. It's a version of himself that's weak. It's a version of himself that's vulnerable. It's a child inside of him. "

" I did a series of these soft-core horror movies called 'Mirror Mirror.' I got killed in 'em all - and each time, I came back as a different character. They were all straight-to-video. "

" I'm a very hands-on father. I like being a hands-on father. I am probably more like one of my kids in my family, but the dominating kid. "

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" What is happiness other than a negotiation between reality and your dreams? It's understanding that you give up something for something else. I feel like that's been how I've been trying to be happy, although in my DNA there's more of a depressed person. "

" After the brain tumor happened, I realized I love acting, I've always loved it, I may never get a chance to do it again. "

" I did grow up in Kenosha, Wisconsin, around a lot of my mom's family. I had a lot of cousins and aunts and uncles around me, and my sisters and my brother. Probably the most formative part of it was that we grew up on the edge of a forest. It wasn't a big forest, but it was enough. When you're a kid, it feels gigantic. "

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" My mom was a hairdresser. My aunt was a hairdresser. My brother was a hairdresser. My sisters are hairdressers. "

" My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave. "

" The true value of somebody in this town is very hard to determine. It's all smoke and mirrors. "

" It's imperative that we opt out of the fossil fuel endgame. "

" I want to get into some television. There might be a perception about me being only a movie actor, you know, and there's this whole new sort of frontier opening up in that medium. "

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" I remember riding my bike down the boardwalk with nowhere to go and looking at the girls. It was really innocent. "

" I think we've all been kind of... everyone's been hurt, everyone's felt loss, everyone has exultation, everyone has a need to be loved, or to have lost love, so when you play a character, you're pulling out those little threads and turning them up a bit. "

" I love 'The Sportswriter' by Richard Ford. Ford really captures for me the bittersweetness of the quietly suffering American man. It's stoic, sad, and really beautiful. "

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" I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher. "

" I like to disappear in the parts I play. "

" People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life. "

" Actors, like it or not, their voices carry deeply into the culture: people look towards them for attitudes, for right or wrong, and today, the mainstream media doesn't really balance the unheard. "

" I think of marriage as a garden. You have to tend to it. Respect it, take care of it, feed it. Make sure everyone is getting the right amount of, um, sunlight. "