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" I've never been much of a guitarist. I mean, I've played forever, but I was always more of a rhythm kind of guy. I don't read music. "

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" I had a great conversation with Tom Waits, of all people. "

" I had an audition where Josh Brolin was pelting me with his personality. I didn't get the part. "

" In a play, you dictate pace, you dictate rhythm, you dictate when people look at you, when people should be looking at something else. In film, the editor does that. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I guess 'Scarface' was the Cuban Al Pacino. "

" I was in bands, but they were punk bands, and you plug in the guitars, you turn them up really loud, you've got four or five other people on stage with you, you've got some protection from when they throw lighters. You can always hide behind the lead singer or the bass player. "

" With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly. "

" Talent is very hot. "

" I was interested in the war part of 'Star Wars,' so I started reading about what it's like to go to war, what that does to you psychically, about the adrenaline and the rush. "

" The songs I've written that are the strongest, I'm like: 'I don't know where that came from. It just kind of popped out.' You feel you can't take a whole lot of credit for it. I didn't purposefully will it into existence. "

" I've been fortunate to be working mostly right out of school. Every year, there was a little something, and it kept the confidence going. It's about confidence and the belief. "

" 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. "

" I don't know why people are so obsessed with finding out stuff before the movie comes out. It's so much more fun to just go. I mean, I don't do that. I don't go looking for stuff that I'm interested in, you know, to try and find out pictures and what the movie's about. It's so much more fun to be surprised. "

" 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. "

" I'm so bored by business and money. "

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

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

" I'm very happy to have the heritage that I do, but I'm not wanting to be 'the Latino actor.' I just want to be 'an actor.' "

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

" I grow up in the States, in Miami, but I was born in Guatemala, and my father's Cuban, and in 'Body of Lies,' I played an Iraqi. "

" 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. "

" My dad was a huge Bob Dylan fan, so we listened to his music, Cat Stevens, Simon & Garfunkel, and all that kind of stuff. "

" I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York. "

" My family are huge 'Star Wars' fans. "

" In the 1960s, there was a forward way of speaking and inflection. "

" What's funny in 'The Mayor of MacDougal Street' is how Dave Van Ronk talks a lot about the time and how exciting it was and how electric it was. "

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