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" I've never had any close male friends. The most important relationships in my life have always been with women. "

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" I love theaters. I love the event of going there and seeing a movie with a lot of people. I like the community coming around the story. "

" The worst thing is to get involved with people who aren't passionate about what they're doing. "

" Celebrity is okay as long as you know it's not about you. "

" I do want to be in mainstream movies that are going to be seen. I suppose it satisfies the showbiz side of me. "

" I'm one of those people who when I go over a bridge, I want to jump. It's just this intense tickle in the back of my throat. It's like I'm on the verge the whole time I'm walking over that bridge, and I'm not going to get a release until I jump. "

" Corruption is something you face all the time. Avoid it. "

" I have no doubt that if I met Bob Dylan, it would be disappointing - and annoying to him. But that's why I like Bob Dylan. "

" The Midwest isn't somewhere you mix with those from the performing arts. But my mum and dad would go off to Chicago every so often to see shows. They would bring back the albums and the movies, those little eight metres, and we would all watch. I think that was when I fell in love with acting. "

" One of the pleasures of being an actor is quite simply taking a walk in someone else's shoes. And when I look at the roles I've played, I'm kind of amazed at all the wonderful adventures I've had and the different things I've learned. "

" Basically, when I hear the words 'family drama,' I run in the opposite direction. "

" Action breeds inspiration more than inspiration breeds action. "

" Weirdness is not my game. I'm just a square boy from Wisconsin. "

" Emotionally men and women are different, but only as a result of the physical differences. It all comes back to our bodies. "

" Let's hope I never end up on a deserted island, because I could never make a decision on which three CDs to take with me. "

" My dad was a surgeon, my mom a nurse, and they were always out working. I had five sisters and a brother. They didn't care what I got up to. "

" That's a frustration sometimes, that certain directors that I'd like to work with, they just aren't doing stories that I'm sort of castable in. Not always, but sometimes I have that frustration. "

" I'm no different to anyone else; I want people to like me. I just don't particularly want them to understand me. "

" I am confident only when I am constantly in motion. Between projects, the doubt creeps in. "

" The bad things about theatre get balanced by the good things in film and vice versa. So to tell you the truth, I love it when I can go back and forth - it feeds different parts of you and exercises different muscles. "

" I'll never be able to really see a film that I'm in. "

" All the time, as an actor, you want to be asking what's next and where things are going. If you're not asking those questions, you're not growing. "

" In order to inhabit a character, you've got to embrace and empathise with them. "

" When I give over to somebody's vision rather than have an idea of what I need to do, it takes me to places I wouldn't have got to by myself. I'm always attracted to a strong director. "

" You can be intuitive when you've got a more expansive role. You can get into the poetry of telling the story rather than just pushing buttons. "

" With theatre, you have to be ready for anything. "

" I'm not attracted to naturalism, I'm not attracted to behavior, I'm attracted to dance. I'm attracted to gesture, I'm attracted to singing with your voice, as opposed to having a natural manner. I'm a theater actor first, so that probably influences a lot of my approach. And I think in many ways, naturalism has ruined movies. "

" When you work on anything, you want to find the range of impulses - which ones get portrayed is another question, but you want to have that complexity and that fullness, even if you're playing a cartoon character. "

" The director's very important to me, particularly when the director has a recognizable style. "

" I'm a task-oriented actor. A pretender. And I try to invent my process anew each time I make a new project. So I frown on any method. "

" In my experience, sometimes a movie just hits at the wrong time, gets the wrong press, or gets the wrong representation, and it gets misunderstood. "