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" My first exposure to what Hollywood was like, behind the scenes, was when Joel Silver started screaming at Roger Rabbit at the beginning of 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit.' "

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" I don't like to be entertaining. I don't like the feeling of being entertaining. If there was a musical or a comedy that was not just for entertainment but was rooted in something I could relate to on a real level, then I think I would do it. "

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" I don't believe my house was haunted. I think I had an overactive imagination, and I was so convinced that those around me became convinced, too. "

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" It's weird to have no control over something that you're involved in. "

" I think we just knew that we had a movie when Rachel walked in the room. "

" I grew up on Shane Black movies, and I grew up on Joel Silver movies. "

" I had my hustle. It was whatever I could do to not end up working in a factory. If I had to shake it like a showgirl, I was going to do it. "

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" 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. "

" My sister and I used to sing at weddings. We would sing 'When a Man Loves a Woman' to the bride. We'd do it right before the garter ceremony. "

" When my films don't do well, I'm hurt and surprised. It's discouraging. "

" My home life now is mostly women. They are better than us. They make me better. "

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" If the character is true, the movie will fall into place. Or at least that's what you hope. "

" I always wanted to do a comedy, but I wanted to pick the right one. But it came down to working with Steve Carell. I've wanted to work with him since I met him years ago as a kid. "

" I love 'An American in Paris.' That's the one for me. Some of the visual ideas in that film are just haunting and very free. "

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

" If Russell Crowe says that he's Noah, he's Noah. You never doubt it. If he says that he's the Gladiator, he's the Gladiator. He's every character that he says he is. I've never doubted anything that he's done. "

" I think I was always bound to become two selves, if I wasn't already. "

" If people want to put me up on their walls, I'll love it. "

" What's nice with comedy is that you know it's working if it's funny. "

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

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

" The theme for me is love and the lack of it. We all want that and we don't know how to get it, and everything we do is some kind of attempt to capture it for ourselves. "

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" They say never meet your heroes. But the addendum to that is 'unless they're Harrison Ford.' "

" I feel like I think like a woman because I grew up with my mother and my sister, so I've just been programmed to think like a girl. "

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

" If I eat a huge meal and I can get the girl to rub my belly, I think that's about as romantic as I can think of. "

" I guess there's something about you don't know why you're attracted to a character, but you're attracted to them enough to want to - it's like when a song comes on, and you feel like dancing. You don't know why; you just want to dance. It's hard to analyze that feeling, and if you do, you get far away from it. "

" I never was that boy who loved gangster films, but when I was growing up, I was obsessed with the detective Dick Tracy. It was one of my favourite movies as a kid, and he really inspired me. I would have loved to be part of that golden age of Hollywood in the 1940s. It made me want to become an actor. "

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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. "

" Maybe in my life I sort of put myself in situations that were chaotic, outside of my life. "

" 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. "