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" My dad was a doctor, but he was just always, like, going from hospital to hospital for some reason. "

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" Every frame of a Coen brothers movie is filled with history and meaning, and the deeper you go, the deeper you get. That's why their movies stand up particularly well to repeated viewing and investigation. "

" There's very few people - like Shakespeare - who, no matter what, were gonna do what they did. For the rest of us, there's a lot of events that have to happen in order for things to end up the way they are. "

" You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there. "

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

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

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

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

" If you can find a way that your principles are actually the strategically smartest thing to do, you've kind of figured it out. "

" 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.' "

" A lot of very successful businessmen share some of these sociopathic traits - a lack of empathy, seeing people as commodities, projecting an air of sincerity when everything is actually calculated. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary. "

" It's nice to create a character, not just within two scenes, but within the journey of a whole movie. It's fun to do that. "

" I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role. "

" I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar. "

" I think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher. "

" 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. "

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

" The very first proper play I did was 'Godspell,' and I played the guitar for it, and I had a small part in a high school play. And before that, in sixth grade, I wrote a musical about Noah's ark. "

" I played guitar and bass. I didn't do much vocals, although I did have one band where I was the lead singer. But that was when I was in college. "

" Being someone with Latin roots, so many doors are constantly closed for you because people put you in a category, and the thing I've always wanted to avoid is categorisation. "

" A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear. "

" The motivation is important for me to act it, but I don't necessarily want the audience to know my motivation. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "