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" I had a great conversation with Tom Waits, of all people. "

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" 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. "

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" You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't. "

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

" Advice? Look at your pay statements. "

" Being someone with Latin roots, so many doors are constantly closed for you because people put you in a category, and the thing I've always wanted to avoid is categorisation. "

" 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. "

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

" Max Minghella is a very close friend of mine, and I talk to him regularly. "

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

" When I moved to New York, I had to let my band know that I couldn't play anymore, and that was difficult to leave that behind. "

" I had an audition where Josh Brolin was pelting me with his personality. I didn't get the part. "

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

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

" 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've never been interested in celebrity. "

" All of my high school issues are resolved! "

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

" I have been playing acoustic music for a very long time, and it's something that I am very comfortable doing, so if I made a record, it would probably be a mixture of that and some other things that I'm interested in. "

" I'm so bored by business and money. "

" I was interested in the war part of 'Star Wars,' so I started reading about what it's like to go to war, what that does to you psychically, about the adrenaline and the rush. "

" 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. "

" There's very few people - like Shakespeare - who, no matter what, were gonna do what they did. For the rest of us, there's a lot of events that have to happen in order for things to end up the way they are. "

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

" I like the idea of the comedy of resilience. "

" I've never been much of a guitarist. I mean, I've played forever, but I was always more of a rhythm kind of guy. I don't read music. "

" I've been fortunate to be working mostly right out of school. Every year, there was a little something, and it kept the confidence going. It's about confidence and the belief. "

" 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. "