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

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" I really just like characters who you don't know where they stand for a long while. It's like people. You hang out with them for 10 years, and then all of a sudden they do something, and you say, 'Who are you?' That's more interesting. In life and on-screen. "

" 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. "

" I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar. "

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

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

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

" I've always liked acoustic blues. I liked Bob Dylan a lot. "

" I was in bands, but they were punk bands, and you plug in the guitars, you turn them up really loud, you've got four or five other people on stage with you, you've got some protection from when they throw lighters. You can always hide behind the lead singer or the bass player. "

" The motivation is important for me to act it, but I don't necessarily want the audience to know my motivation. "

" I guess 'Scarface' was the Cuban Al Pacino. "

" 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. "

" It's nice to create a character, not just within two scenes, but within the journey of a whole movie. It's fun to do that. "

" The first movie I can remember seeing in the theater was 'Return of the Jedi.' I can remember seeing Darth Vader's helmet come off. The shock of that moment. "

" 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. "

" My dad was a doctor, but he was just always, like, going from hospital to hospital for some reason. "

" For me, with a character, you start with the shoes. "

" I feel like being an artist and being an activist are separate things; I know some people who feel very differently. "

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

" I always joked with my parents. I told them, 'If I don't make it as an actor, my fallback is musician.' "

" 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. "

" What's funny in 'The Mayor of MacDougal Street' is how Dave Van Ronk talks a lot about the time and how exciting it was and how electric it was. "

" 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. "

" I'm very happy to have the heritage that I do, but I'm not wanting to be 'the Latino actor.' I just want to be 'an actor.' "

" 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. "

" J. J. Abrams is amazing. "

" 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. "

" Advice? Look at your pay statements. "

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

" I remember the first time my mind was blown by an actor was Tim Curry, because I loved 'Clue' when I was a kid, and then I was watching the movie 'Legend,' and the Devil suddenly smiles, and I was like, 'It's the same guy!' It was a total Keyser Soeze moment. "

" With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly. "