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" My first job was in a movie theater. I worked at Cinema 6 in New City, New York. I was an usher. I sold popcorn. "

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" When I work on a part, one of the things I love to do is to put together a collage of things, stuff I see or stuff that inspires me, images, whatever. "

" I don't think I've got the stuff that Broadway musicals are made of. But there are definitely many musicals that I enjoy. 'Hair' and 'Rent' might be my favorites. "

" Violence has always been unfortunately embedded in masculinity, this alpha thing. "

" I specifically remember doing the musical 'Sweet Charity' at Stagedoor. I was playing Vittorio Vidal, which is a very funny part, and some other small roles. I couldn't really sing that well, but there were so many fun bits, and I just remember the tremendous adrenaline rush I felt from being onstage and hearing the audience enjoying it. "

" Embrace your differences and the qualities about you that you think are weird. Eventually, they're going to be the only things separating you from everyone else. "

" You have to pay attention to the moments when you've felt on top on the world. I remember the first time I was on stage, I was doing 'West Side Story,' I was 17 and this woman was crying because she liked what I was doing so much. "

" I like to be lean and flexible. I'm not interested in gaining size. "

" You can't judge a character, and you're never going to always play characters that are morally sound or know right from wrong. "

" I was so against social media for such a long time, but now I can't live without it. "

" Sometimes you don't want to get married too much to a lot of rehearsing, I feel, when it comes to film, because there's so many technicalities. So if I'm in my head, I've gotten settled on something, I'm gonna have to change it if I get there and something was set that's completely different. "

" I can't take one day for granted. That's usually how I think. "

" Playing an unstable, bipolar, multiple-personality-disorder person is definitely up my alley. "

" Comic-book movies are mythology, in a way, and there are a lot more parallels in them with what's going on in the real world than people want to discuss. "

" I've never been ice skating, ever. I'm traumatized by the idea of it. "

" The thing that sticks to me most about theater is that because it's such an ape crazy nonstop experience, you really don't have time to think about anything else. You're just really present; you have to be, or else, you know, you can't stop the play. "

" I was born in Romania and later lived in Vienna, Austria, for a few years, and I eventually made my way over to New York in '95. "

" You have license in front of the camera to do things, feel certain emotions that you don't get to in real life. It can be addicting. "

" I came here from Romania when I was 12 years old. I had an accent. High school was tough a little bit for a few years. I wanted to fit in. I wanted to be liked. I wanted to be good-looking. I wanted to be popular. I spent a lot of time thinking, 'What are these people going to think of me?' "

" I was Danny Zuko in 'Grease,' and I was in the musical 'Sweet Charity' and then in the musical 'On the Twentieth Century.' They were great. I mean, singing isn't really my strong suit, but I just really enjoyed it. "

" I always look at auditions as not even getting the job as much as I'm just trying to connect with this casting director so they remember me for next time. "

" I've gotten really good at not judging characters. "

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