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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. "

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" I like films that take their time a little bit more and don't show you all of their cards right away, characters that are conflicted and contradicting and seem one way at first and then suddenly turn out to be something else. "

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" All of my high school issues are resolved! "

" Most actors, if you ask them if they play guitar, they'll say they played guitar for 20 years, but what they really mean is they've owned a guitar for 20 years. "

" There's very few geniuses that come and revolutionize everything. For the rest of us that want to be artists and have something to say, it's a lot of work and a lot of luck. "

" I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary. "

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

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" 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. "

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

" People resent movies that try to tell them exactly what to feel. "

" Talent is very hot. "

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

" Anything that's made by humans is about humans, whether it's about gods or aliens or anything; it's about some sort of expressive nature about us. "

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" A personal game-changer was when Ridley Scott cast me as King John, the King of England, for 'Robin Hood.' "

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

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" I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?' "

" Humans are mutants, everything's a mutant - things that evolve. "

" 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. "

" It'd be crazy to say just because an artist is not successful that means he's not talented. I don't think anybody really believes that, but sometimes it feels that way. "

" When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances. "

" Cats are impossible to work with. They're just very difficult because you can't really train them. They're not really interested in whatever you want them to do. Dogs want to please you; cats only want to please themselves. "

" If you can find a way that your principles are actually the strategically smartest thing to do, you've kind of figured it out. "

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

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

" I think it's good to be a little more fearless in saying what you feel. In not being scared of the repercussions of that. "

" How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality. "

" 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. "

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" I was never much of a singer. I was terrible. It's embarrassing: I was trying to sound like everybody else. I went through a big Cure phase, so I was trying to do that kind of dramatic voice. "

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

" 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. "

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