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" I love 'An American in Paris.' That's the one for me. Some of the visual ideas in that film are just haunting and very free. "

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" I've been doing this since I was 12... I don't want to act much longer; I can't do one thing my whole life. "

" I just have my own taste, and I just try and stick with that. I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can for as long as I have an opportunity to. "

" It's not like I set out to be 'the indie guy.' "

" The Internet is just an abstract place. Sure, I've become part of that in some way, but it's hard for me to wrap my head around a lot of it. I prefer just to kind of stay out of it. "

" I don't even think of myself as particularly good looking, and not at all a typical kind of Hollywood leading man sort of actor. "

" It's interesting the kind of freedom the musical form gives you. The rules are out the window. You can get impressionistic without seeming pretentious. Because it's perceived as an inherently accessible form, it gives filmmakers some leeway. "

" I think that you can sort of have your own personal journey and you know, you can just kind of apply that to whatever characters you're playing. "

" I love being Canadian. I think growing up in Canada gives you a world perspective that I certainly enjoy. "

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

" What's nice with comedy is that you know it's working if it's funny. "

" I don't believe in ghosts. "

" It's not easy to leave your hometown and your family and your support system and come out to Los Angeles to - to pursue a dream where the odds are not in your favor. "

" I'm going to make a movie about 'Hey Girl.' "

" Freedom is such a gift. "

" My uncle was an Elvis impersonator - his name was Perry, and he went by 'Elvis Perry' - and my work as a wedding singer landed me a spot in his act. "

" 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. "

" Some of the styles of dance in 'La La Land' I wish I had spent time on when I was a kid. "

" There's something messed up with my brain. "

" I feel like one of the things that I watched that I felt was really helpful in some way but, more than anything, is worth mentioning was this film 'Boogie Man.' It's a documentary about Lee Atwater. "

" I try not to discriminate against genres. "

" You feel good if you've done hard work. You sleep better. You get stuck in your head if you have too much time to think. "

" Most movies, you have to try and forget you're making a movie, because there are trailers and booms and lights and marks, and it's everywhere. "

" My mother had to tailor what I watched. "

" I'm glad I have an outlet. I don't think I would put my aggression elsewhere, but working on the projects I have worked on, you tend to benefit personally from trying to wrap your head around the way other people look at the world. "

" I try to play characters who are different from myself, so I feel like this character is someone who is really different. I actually think that if I did what he did in this movie, I would get a restraining order put against me. "

" I think we're very complicated and we're capable of all kinds of things, and movies don't reflect that. "

" I know that I'm with the person I'm supposed to be with. "

" I don't believe my house was haunted. I think I had an overactive imagination, and I was so convinced that those around me became convinced, too. "

" If I have any particular appeal to women, maybe it's because I listen more than other guys do and appreciate how they think and feel about things. "

" I like working with actresses, and I like women a lot, not for obvious reasons, but just in that that there's so much about what they bring to the scene that keeps it so interesting. Their instincts are so different, and they never explain them to you. "