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" Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it. "

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" 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. "

" My dad always played a lot of music, so I heard him playing all the time, and then I decided that I wanted to learn to play guitar, so I got an acoustic and started taking lessons. I wanted to be able to shred like Yngwie Malmsteen. "

" I remember the first time my mind was blown by an actor was Tim Curry, because I loved 'Clue' when I was a kid, and then I was watching the movie 'Legend,' and the Devil suddenly smiles, and I was like, 'It's the same guy!' It was a total Keyser Soeze moment. "

" When I came up to New York to do a play, I passed by Julliard, and I was like, 'Oh I heard of this place.' I applied, and ended up getting in. "

" There's very few geniuses that come and revolutionize everything. For the rest of us that want to be artists and have something to say, it's a lot of work and a lot of luck. "

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

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

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

" I think that when you decide to dedicate yourself to creative endeavors and surround yourself with people who are creative, you very quickly learn how hard it is to survive doing those kinds of things, not to mention make a living at them. "

Surround Yourself

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

" A personal game-changer was when Ridley Scott cast me as King John, the King of England, for 'Robin Hood.' "

" Advice? Look at your pay statements. "

" I think it's good to be a little more fearless in saying what you feel. In not being scared of the repercussions of that. "

" 'Drive' is a genre piece, and a lot of times we don't get really sophisticated genre films. "

" For me, with a character, you start with the shoes. "

" 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. "

" I think romantic passion is wanting a little something in return. "

" The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting. "

" 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. "

" The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other people. "

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

" You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't. "

" I've never been much of a guitarist. I mean, I've played forever, but I was always more of a rhythm kind of guy. I don't read music. "

" I wouldn't mind seeing The Smiths reform. That would be cool. "

" Humans are mutants, everything's a mutant - things that evolve. "

" All of my high school issues are resolved! "

" I think Shakespeare really got it. He was the first one to introduce psychology to villains and give them a real point of view. "

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

" I grow up in the States, in Miami, but I was born in Guatemala, and my father's Cuban, and in 'Body of Lies,' I played an Iraqi. "

" 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. "