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" I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk. "
Garrett Hedlund
School
Back
Country
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" I had never heard much about Nashville before coming out here, and that's why it's so surprising, because I'm the biggest enthusiast on the city of Nashville now. I'm looking for a place out here to live. "
Garrett Hedlund
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Live
Looking
" Kerouac was the cowboy that inspired the whole Beat Generation, and highlighted and put the spotlight on all of these minds that didn't really know what they were doing at the time, but accomplished something much bigger than what they ever foresaw. "
Garrett Hedlund
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Doing
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" I actually signed on to do 'On the Road' before we started on 'Tron,' but we were in flux for a while, just sort of playing the waiting game, trying to get the right budget and the right cast. "
Garrett Hedlund
Waiting
Budget
Road
" I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country. "
Garrett Hedlund
Farm
Where
Up
" A great amount of good is always evened out by a great amount of bad. I find it's best to acknowledge that weird balance. "
Garrett Hedlund
Balance
Weird
Great
" After school, I'd hang out at the Borders bookstore until it closed. "
Garrett Hedlund
Out
Hang
Borders
" It's funny that I got to do 'On the Road' because the thing that had the biggest impact on me growing up was reading books. I was very inspired by the book and this spirit of Dean Moriarty and how envious we all are of somebody who can be that carefree. "
Garrett Hedlund
Book
Funny
Growing Up
" I had done chorus before in school, but I was only trying for an easy A. I was a bass going 'dum dum da doo wop.' "
Garrett Hedlund
Bass
Trying
School
" Growing up, I would watch a movie on video and would go to the back of the VHS and locate the address for Universal Pictures or MGM or whatever. I'd write to the studios asking them if I could be in a movie. They never wrote me back. "
Garrett Hedlund
Back
Me
Pictures
" See, the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it, the bitter honesty, is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then, there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody - 'You must live life this way' - and these guys were bored. "
Garrett Hedlund
Honesty
War
Anniversary
" With 'Tron,' we had so many crew members around and a stage full of special effects people that know exactly what has to be done in the situations. You're on a stage in sets the whole time. "
Garrett Hedlund
You
Done
Know
" I grew up on a farm in a small town where you do or say one thing and everybody knows about it. You see it happen, there's always the town gossip - 'Oh did you hear about so and so, or did you hear what went on in this household?' So I learned at a very young age just to keep my mouth shut. "
Garrett Hedlund
Age
You
Small
" I fantasised about F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' - I loved it, and then I read everything J. D. Salinger had to offer. Then I was turned on to Kerouac, and his spontaneous prose, his stream of consciousness way of writing. I admired him so much, and I romanticised so much about the '40s and '50s. "
Garrett Hedlund
Great
Loved
Writing
" I remember telling my creative writing teacher that you never want to have a journal, because if you lose it, then someone's going to know all your secrets. And then she stopped using a journal, but I always write everything down... Anytime I travel, I try and fill up notepads. "
Garrett Hedlund
Teacher
Know
Creative
" When my senior prom was happening, I was in Malta filming 'Troy.' "
Garrett Hedlund
Happening
Prom
Senior
" I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be able to Rollerblade hand-in-hand with somebody I had a crush on. I just wanted to get off the farm, to find my outlet. "
Garrett Hedlund
Off
Crush
Farm
" I remember driving the tractor on our farm, and Tim McGraw would be on the radio. I'd find myself walking out of class, singing his songs. And then Tim ended up playing my father in 'Friday Night Lights.' It was surreal. "
Garrett Hedlund
Night
Father
Singing
" It was close to like a 67- or 70-day shoot for 'Tron' on stage, in the suit. You can't even sit down during the day because of all the cables that divide the foam rubber and all the electrical circuits. We had these stools that were tall with a bicycle seat on them and you're just looking at a blue screen all day. "
Garrett Hedlund
Day
You
Down
" Life's too short when you find yourself sitting in a car for four hours every day trying to get from East L.A. to West L.A. to Hollywood and then back to East L.A. "
Garrett Hedlund
Life
Yourself
You
" I've always had a longstanding dream, ever since I was a kid, where I was running on a big lake of ice and I kept running and kept running, just about to where I was trying to get to, and I fell through the ice, and then I couldn't find the hole where I fell through to get back out again. "
Garrett Hedlund
Find
Trying
Lake
" The Beat Generation - that term is even more familiar now, even more than say the '70s. Hype is built and established and people link it back to a certain generation, in this case the '40s and '50s. Now everyone knows that that group was the Beat Generation. "
Garrett Hedlund
Back
Say
People
" I've been told I'm too good looking for certain roles, but that's okay, it just motivates me to go deeper. "
Garrett Hedlund
Okay
Me
Looking
" I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email. "
Garrett Hedlund
Power
Jazz
Late
" 'Love Don't Let Me Down,' which is the original title of 'Country Strong,' was just as difficult emotionally as 'Tron' was physically. I play a country singer that basically gets on tour with Gwyneth Paltrow's character, who is one of the biggest country stars out there, and she's fallen down too many times and it's an intense emotional story. "
Garrett Hedlund
Character
Stars
Story
" For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories. "
Garrett Hedlund
Love
Home
Small
" You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself. "
Garrett Hedlund
Yourself
Think
Positive
" I was a 'Duck Hunt' and 'Mario' guy, and stuff like that. I was never technologically driven. I never had all the cool, new toys. I was the youngest child, I wasn't the only child, so I wasn't spoiled as a kid. And, we were on the farm, so we didn't have a lot. Also, with computers, I'm not very good with them. I just check my email. "
Garrett Hedlund
Cool
Duck
Farm
" When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time. "
Garrett Hedlund
Thought
Rest
Strong
" My biggest thing has always been privacy. With an interview such as this where the questions are about me, I struggle to express myself. I have an immediate answer in my head of what I'd say, but sometimes I feel that it would be too honest. So these wheels of censorship start going around my head. "
Garrett Hedlund
Start
Me
Myself
" Especially for me, growing up in such a small town in the middle of nowhere, the desire to be away was incredible. I wanted to see new lands, meet new people from the city, and meet people that were in much less fortunate situations than I was, so that I could be more appreciative of my present. At least I had food on the table. "
Garrett Hedlund
Small
People
City