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" In eighth grade, I wore a tie to school every day. I didn't own jeans. But it wasn't a granola thing, it was really more of an INXS thing. "

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" I'm not actively seeking stardom. I just go to auditions, and I knock on wood. "

" I don't have an agenda where I do a comedy and say, 'I have to do a drama next,' or 'I am looking for an action movie now.' "

" Fear is what makes comedy funny. "

" I went to college and studied theater; I went to a theater conservatory. I live in New York because I wanted to do plays and still do plays. "

" I wasn't one of those kids who was like, 'I want to be an actor.' It wasn't in my wheelhouse at all. I wasn't from a family that did this or in a place where people did this. "

" 'Ant-Man' was a genre, I guess, that I hadn't really tackled before. "

" All I really wanted to be was a working actor. "

" I'm sure that my wanting to be an actor had to do with a need for approval. "

" My parents were married my whole life until my father passed away a few years ago. "

" I know a lot about the Titanic. My dad was a Titanic expert. "

" Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor. "

" I am so appreciative I have been able to continue not only doing something I love, but working on movies I've loved. "

" 'Anchorman' was never supposed to be a popular, like, hit movie. That movie was a cheap movie - it felt like we were working on a weird independent comedy in a way. "

" I think I used comedy as a mechanism: if I could make the other kids laugh, I wouldn't get beaten up or teased as much. "

" I grew up in a lot of different places, mostly in Kansas, I really started thinking seriously about acting in high school; I just did it better than most of the other activities in school. "

" It's not often that you get to play somebody that has absolutely no cynicism or is not judgmental in any way. "

" I don't find the characters I've played funny. The characters are actually taking their situations very seriously. "

" I went through a phase where I thought it was really funny to make pratfalls in very crowded places. I jumped out of a moving car once, for a laugh. That was a mistake. "

" Puberty hit me pretty hard. All of a sudden, I woke up, and I had really curly hair. "

" I hated 'Top Gun.' "

" There are many great writers out there and, actually, great scripts. The problem is - and this is what I've always felt, even when I got out of school and started reading scripts - the really smart, character-driven stuff tends to be smaller films, and they just don't get made. "

" I really tried for a while to go with the Adam Ant look. "

" At my core, I'm a Midwesterner. "

" I'm a big fan of not working. "

" I love attempting to play real people. I like to try and have dramatic moments as well as comedic moments, and my favorite thing is when those two lines are blurred. "

" There is a major part of who I am that does not feel like the alpha male. "

" Whatever I'm working on, the character I'm playing tends to slowly bleed into my own real life. Not in any kind of creepy, Method actor-y kind of way - it's just an innate kind of merging. "

" Tea has always been a big thing in my life. And I'm not talking about Liptons with lemon or iced tea, or any of that nonsense. Has to be hot PG Tips with milk. "

" I try not to think of myself in any category, and I don't ever really try to imagine myself competing with another actor. I just know I want to do the things that I would want to see, and I know the things that turn me on, whether it's on the stage, or it's a play or a film. I just kind of want to keep doing my own thing. "

" I've always loved David Letterman. There was an irreverence to his show that I remember, especially in 'Late Night' - it always seemed so fresh. "