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" I know there are only so many characters I'll be able to play. "

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" I'm not very good at knowing what people want. I don't have that talent. The best I can do is make films that resonate with me and see what happens. "

" There's good things about going to church. "

" For now, I'm just going to keep doing the work and hope I don't get fired. If people want to put me up on their walls, I'll love it. "

" I was very impressed by Walt Disney and the idea that you could have a dream and you could realize it to the point where people could walk around within it... It still resonates with me. I wanted to be somebody who believed in their ideas that much. "

" If Russell Crowe says that he's Noah, he's Noah. You never doubt it. If he says that he's the Gladiator, he's the Gladiator. He's every character that he says he is. I've never doubted anything that he's done. "

" There used to be a candy called 'Bonkers,' which I believe to be the greatest candy of all time. "

" There's a lot of pressure to be the lead of a film. I have done it. It's not my favorite way to work. "

" My sister and I used to sing at weddings. We would sing 'When a Man Loves a Woman' to the bride. We'd do it right before the garter ceremony. "

" When my films don't do well, I'm hurt and surprised. It's discouraging. "

" Freedom is such a gift. "

" I had a lot of romanticised ideas of what Detroit was like, but I didn't get there until I was 30, and it was very different than I had imagined it. "

" I did put on weight for the last half of the film, but the Ferris wheel scene was shot with a harness on me so that if I fell I wouldn't fall all the way. "

" I loved growing up in Canada. It's a great place to grow up because - well, at least where I grew up - it's very multicultural. There's also good health care and a good education system. "

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" I did what I had to do to get where I wanted to go. I had unearned confidence. "

" I never was that boy who loved gangster films, but when I was growing up, I was obsessed with the detective Dick Tracy. It was one of my favourite movies as a kid, and he really inspired me. I would have loved to be part of that golden age of Hollywood in the 1940s. It made me want to become an actor. "

" It's not good just to have life experience of film-making and that's all. It's hard to play a real person when you've been in jets and town cars for three years. "

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" Falling in love is a narcissistic endeavor. You play the role of lover, and you find someone to act it out on. "

Falling In Love

" All my characters are me. I'm not a good enough actor to become a character. I hear about actors who become the role and I think 'I wonder what that feels like.' Because for me, they're all me. "

" I think 'Believer' and 'Leland' were such great things to have been a part of, and I learned a lot. "

" As a kid I decided that a Canadian accent doesn't sound tough. I thought guys should sound like Marlon Brando. So now I have a phony accent that I can't shake, so it's not phony anymore. "

" I always wanted to do a comedy, but I wanted to pick the right one. But it came down to working with Steve Carell. I've wanted to work with him since I met him years ago as a kid. "