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" I've been thinking about a bank robbery my whole life. "

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" Maybe in my life I sort of put myself in situations that were chaotic, outside of my life. "

" Any time you stick your neck out in high school, there's someone right there to chop your head off. "

" I've always liked women more. I was brought up by my mother and older sister. I found my way into dance class. "

" I felt like I was going crazy as a kid. I wanted to be man, get a job. "

" I think it's more interesting to see people who don't feel appropriately. I relate to that, because sometimes I don't feel anything at all for things I'm supposed to, and other times I feel too much. It's not always like it is in the movies. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Freedom is such a gift. "

" I think the 'Law of Attraction' comes from a rich, white, privileged perspective. "

" I was highly influenced by violence. "

" I just sort of feel like John Hughes movies are perfect, but they're missing violence. If they just had some violence, they'd be perfect. "

" Acting isn't that hard, really. I mean, I think that people make a big deal about it, but you just kind of try to say your lines naturally. "

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

" In New York, you're forced to deal with life; it's there in front of you on a daily basis. "

" 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. "

" I grew up in a family of strong women and I owe any capacity I have to understand women to my mother and big sister. They taught me to respect women in a way where I've always felt a strong emotional connection to women, which has also helped me in the way I approach my work as an actor. "

" I grew up Mormon. I wasn't really Mormon, my parents were. "

" 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 just sort of take it from a character perspective, and I don't know if he was necessarily spiritual, but I do think he had hope. He was a character that was comfortable having hope in his life, and hope is faith. "

" If you do one good thing, that doesn't define you either. Being around the kids in the juvenile center, they were engaging, they made us laugh but they were there for doing something terrible. "

" What a lot of people don't understand about the NC-17, which I didn't understand, is that you can't show it in major theater chains - and you can't even air spots for your film on television. It really stigmatizes the movie. "

" 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. "

" This is going to sound ridiculous, but I remember watching 'Boyz n the Hood,' and there is a scene where Cuba Gooding, Jr. gets pressed against a car by a police officer, and he starts crying because it's so humiliating. I remember thinking in that moment that I could totally identify with him, and I'm a little white kid from Canada. "

" I feel like I think like a woman because I grew up with my mother and my sister, so I've just been programmed to think like a girl. "

" I've lost perspective on what I'm doing. I think it's good for me to take a break and reassess why I'm doing it and how I'm doing it. And I think this is probably a good way to learn about that. I need a break from myself as much as I imagine the audience does. "

" I guess there's something about you don't know why you're attracted to a character, but you're attracted to them enough to want to - it's like when a song comes on, and you feel like dancing. You don't know why; you just want to dance. It's hard to analyze that feeling, and if you do, you get far away from it. "