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" I grew up in the Midwest, where people seem to be friendly and nice to one another. There is less stress than in some of the other cities. "

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" There are many great writers out there and, actually, great scripts. The problem is - and this is what I've always felt, even when I got out of school and started reading scripts - the really smart, character-driven stuff tends to be smaller films, and they just don't get made. "

" I'm not that nice - it's one of those things that reveals itself over time. You could talk to people who know me well; they could give you a laundry list. Except they probably wouldn't because they're petrified. "

" I have trouble with long-term things. I tend to get obsessed with stuff and then move on. Roles, songs, video games. That's why I was afraid of marriage. Because it was like a lifelong game of 'Madden.' "

" I used to ask my mom to try and shave my head on the sides to give me a receding hairline because Adam Ant had one. "

" I try not to think of myself in any category, and I don't ever really try to imagine myself competing with another actor. I just know I want to do the things that I would want to see, and I know the things that turn me on, whether it's on the stage, or it's a play or a film. I just kind of want to keep doing my own thing. "

" Early on, I decided I would see if I could make a career work on my own terms. "

" I'd like to do something dramatic or a different kind of role, but I tend not to separate comedy and drama all that much. "

" Willie Nelson is the perfect person, it seems to me, to think about. Because something tells me that he operates on his own frequency. "

" Embarrassment and awkward situations are not foreign things to me. "

" I think that I identify with my role in pretty much everything I have tried to do. I try to find something that I can understand about each character's behavior. "

" 'Ant-Man' was a genre, I guess, that I hadn't really tackled before. "

" I can talk about sports and stuff, but I have a season pass for 'Antiques Roadshow' on my TiVo. "

" I don't consider myself a comedian because I don't really concern myself too much with jokes. "

" As a kid, I know that most of my parents' friends were because my mom made friends with them, and my dad went along. I know a lot of dads who do that. I think it just starts to happen with guys. In the case of my father, he was probably just too busy reading books about Titanic. "

" I was always in new schools and had British parents, which was not the norm, and I think there was also... I'm not particularly religious, but I was born Jewish, and I always felt like the outsider because I wasn't Christian or Catholic. "

" I don't feel like a dork, but I certainly have many moments of nerdism, and I embrace it wholeheartedly. I've always cottoned to that crowd more, anyway. "

" 'Anchorman' was never supposed to be a popular, like, hit movie. That movie was a cheap movie - it felt like we were working on a weird independent comedy in a way. "

" Kiss is a super - they are total businessmen. They pride themselves on it. "

" I'm surprised that I get to be in the same room with half the people that I'm working with. "

" Looking back, I'm really happy with the choices I've made in my career. I know for a fact I could be wealthier. Who knows, maybe I could be more successful, maybe not. I don't know. But just about every single thing I've ever done I've gone into with the right intentions, and that goes a long way. "

" There is a major part of who I am that does not feel like the alpha male. "

" There are so many really good comedians, and I would never be as good as they are. It's not my calling. "

" I'm not good at small talk. I'm really not. I'm not that great at any talk. "

" My wife is very stealth-funny. She'll come out with something when I'm not expecting it, and it'll just kill me. "

" I do like the idea that tomorrow I might find out that I'm going to be doing something that is completely unknowable today. I think it forces you to live in the moment in a very good way. "

" There's a very specific thing you can do to get in magazines. I'm much happier to just show up and do the job. I haven't taken the active approach to making myself a star. I haven't been in a blockbuster. "

" My parents were married my whole life until my father passed away a few years ago. "

" Why would anyone be an actor if he or she weren't insecure? That's why anybody pursues this kind of work. "

" Sometimes you read a script, and it's like, 'You'll improv, and this is just a blueprint of what the scene could be,' and that's never a good sign. And it's never encouraging as an actor to take that on, really. "

" In eighth grade, I wore a tie to school every day. I didn't own jeans. But it wasn't a granola thing, it was really more of an INXS thing. "