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" My family has artists, but they are all working artists. They are not movie stars. They don't get paid. I really respect that blue-collared ideology where they're just trying to make a living. "
Emory Cohen
Trying
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" When I was a kid, I saw 'Peter Pan,' and I loved Captain Hook and the Lost Boys because they were the 'bad boys.' "
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" I told my father I wanted to act, and he stared renting all these classic films for me to watch. "
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" Toronto is a special city, and the environment is perfect for the arts; free and alive. I'm a New Yorker, and Toronto reminds me of a much cleaner New York, so it's like coming home after your mom just cleaned your room for you; for me that's a lovely environment. "
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" The old joke in my family is that the last person who isn't from New York was coming from Russia. "
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" After I did 'Brooklyn,' I did about five or six violent films in one way or another, and not always with me being the bad guy, but something violent about it to keep the street cred up, really. "
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" I'll play a happy character, but most characters are driven by a pain or a fear. They are driven by something deep down, and most people are like that in the sense. And so, that's what interests me. "
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" That's what separates actors - I'll take any risk for a performance. "
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" If I wanted to play it safe, I'd get a normal job with a secure paycheck. "
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" I want to do a rom-com. For me, where I come from, it would be such a stretch. "
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" I was 16 when I linked up with my manager - first person I ever auditioned for - and I've been in this ever since. "
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" It's not like every actor needs to train, but an actor will either develop their process through training or through working. "
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Will
" When I'm playing a bad guy, a lot of it is imagined: things I thought I wanted to do, but I never would do them. "
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" When it comes to a love story, you're like, 'I've been in love before.' So it's closer to you than the other stuff, and for me, that can be less comfortable. "
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" I'm glad I chose more vulnerable work about what is love and what is freedom and those kinds of things. But there's something innate in me where I always come back to characters with an edge. "
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" I'm kind of an all-or-nothing kind of guy. "
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Kind
" I really respect people who are just getting by with their 9 to 5s. "
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" I'm zero to a hundred in almost every facet of my life. "
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" I did 'Pines,' and everybody wanted me to be the bad boy. Then I did Tony in 'Brooklyn,' and everybody wanted me to be the sweet kid. So I just want to keep everybody on their toes. Basically, that was the thought process. "
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" I'm a fourth-generation New Yorker. My family has been in New York for many, many years. "
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" There are shows that have been prematurely canceled, but I don't know if 'Smash' was one of them. "
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" The hardest thing is for me to let the work go and let myself just live. Every actor is different; they each have their own strengths and weaknesses; trust and ease are mine. "
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" I come from an intense family - like, we're just intense people. Not bad people or anything, we are just very intense, and I have just always felt like people who weren't like that were just a kind of hiding it, like when I was really young in high school. "
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