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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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" I love a good loser. "

" I am constantly interested in people who society calls 'bad' because I don't like to just buy into something that everybody's going to say. I want to investigate that for myself. With a character, you get to fully investigate that emotionally and understand the parts of them that are in pain and scared and are good. That's human. "

" I was 16 when I linked up with my manager - first person I ever auditioned for - and I've been in this ever since. "

" If I wanted to play it safe, I'd get a normal job with a secure paycheck. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm a fourth-generation New Yorker. My family has been in New York for many, many years. "

" I told my father I wanted to act, and he stared renting all these classic films for me to watch. "

" I really respect people who are just getting by with their 9 to 5s. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm zero to a hundred in almost every facet of my life. "

" 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. "

" I want to do a rom-com. For me, where I come from, it would be such a stretch. "

" That's what separates actors - I'll take any risk for a performance. "

" It's not like every actor needs to train, but an actor will either develop their process through training or through working. "

" When I was a kid, I saw 'Peter Pan,' and I loved Captain Hook and the Lost Boys because they were the 'bad boys.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There are shows that have been prematurely canceled, but I don't know if 'Smash' was one of them. "

" 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. "

" I'm kind of an all-or-nothing kind of guy. "