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" I've wanted to make films since a really young age. It's always been my passion. "

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" 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. "

" I'm Canadian, and so American politics aren't really in my wheelhouse. "

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" I'm glad I have an outlet. I don't think I would put my aggression elsewhere, but working on the projects I have worked on, you tend to benefit personally from trying to wrap your head around the way other people look at the world. "

" I did this scene in 'Lars and the Real Girl' where I was in a room full of old ladies who were knitting, and it was an all-day scene, so they showed me how. It was one of the most relaxing days of my life. "

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

" I need a break from myself as much as I imagine the audience does. "

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

" I'm going to make a movie about 'Hey Girl.' "

" For me, I sort of felt like it was kind of a fairytale... but an interesting one. I don't know of anybody who has had a romance quite like this, but I certainly know people who have stuck it out. "

" When you meet your kids, you realize that they deserve great parents. And then you have your marching orders, and you have to try and become the person that they deserve. "

" I know that I'm with the person I'm supposed to be with. "

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

" I always wanted to entertain. When I was six, a scrawny, scrawny kid, I'd get in my red speedo and do muscle moves. I actually thought I was muscular. I didn't know everyone was laughing at me. "

" I try to play characters who are different from myself, so I feel like this character is someone who is really different. I actually think that if I did what he did in this movie, I would get a restraining order put against me. "

" When I made 'The Notebook,' the director, Nick Cassavetes, who is John's son, used to show me his father's movies. "

" A car is only trouble at a certain point. "

" My mom was really cool. "

" I was very impressed by Walt Disney and the idea that you could have a dream and you could realize it to the point where people could walk around within it... It still resonates with me. I wanted to be somebody who believed in their ideas that much. "

" Watching myself. Watching the people around me. There was some part of me that was there as a kid and growing up and living my life, but there was also some part of me that was watching it all happen from the nosebleeds. "

" I don't think you can discriminate against budgets, you know? I'm an actor, I guess, so I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can. If there's a character I think I can play, and they're going to let me do it, I'll do it whether it's $10 or $1 million or more. "

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

" The Internet is just an abstract place. Sure, I've become part of that in some way, but it's hard for me to wrap my head around a lot of it. I prefer just to kind of stay out of it. "

" All my characters are me. I'm not a good enough actor to become a character. I hear about actors who become the role and I think 'I wonder what that feels like.' Because for me, they're all me. "

" I grew up in a town called Cornwall, Ontario, which is about an hour outside of Montreal. "

" I danced a little as a kid here in Canada: in Ottawa at the Elite Dance Studio and at the Top Hat Dance School in Cornwall where I grew up. So I had some experience of having to learn routines. "

" I don't really have that much angst to get rid of. "

" Now that I'm an actor and I have movies, press, I have more occasions to wear suits. I like wearing suits. "

" It was a strange experience, making a love story and not getting along with your co-star in any way. "