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

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" I like working with actresses, and I like women a lot, not for obvious reasons, but just in that that there's so much about what they bring to the scene that keeps it so interesting. Their instincts are so different, and they never explain them to you. "

" I'm attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female characters in my life. That's my own reality, so it's a doorway into a world for me. "

" Falling in love is a narcissistic endeavor. You play the role of lover, and you find someone to act it out on. "

Falling In Love

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

" Sometimes I think that the one thing I love most about being an adult is the right to buy candy whenever and wherever I want. "

" I don't know specifically what scenes I'd like to see violence in - I crave violence when I'm watching a John Hughes movie. "

" You can tell so much about somebody by the films they make, and it's only while I approach this do I now realize how much of the filmmaker you can see in their films. "

" Muscles. We're talking about muscles? They're like pets, basically, and they're not worth it. They're just not worth it. You have to feed them all the time and take care of them, and if you don't, they just go away. They run away. "

" I left Canada to come to Hollywood to make movies. "

" I feel it's important to show that one thing that you do doesn't define you as a human being. It doesn't mean there aren't ramifications or you shouldn't pay for that but its not who you are. "

" If I have any particular appeal to women, maybe it's because I listen more than other guys do and appreciate how they think and feel about things. "

" A car is only trouble at a certain point. "

" I have a friend that is a WWII buff, and we sat and talked a lot about stuff like the war and the reasons behind it, and you now it's all in the uniform. Once you're in it, it usually does all the work for you. "

" Watching myself. Watching the people around me. There was some part of me that was there as a kid and growing up and living my life, but there was also some part of me that was watching it all happen from the nosebleeds. "

" I don't really have that much angst to get rid of. "

" I've lost perspective on what I'm doing. I think it's good for me to take a break and reassess why I'm doing it and how I'm doing it. And I think this is probably a good way to learn about that. I need a break from myself as much as I imagine the audience does. "

" There's a lot of pressure to be the lead of a film. I have done it. It's not my favorite way to work. "

" I love being Canadian. I think growing up in Canada gives you a world perspective that I certainly enjoy. "

" I've been thinking about a bank robbery my whole life. "

" I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control it. "

" I wish I could be Peter Falk. "

" I grew up Mormon. I wasn't really Mormon, my parents were. "

" I'm Canadian, and so American politics aren't really in my wheelhouse. "

American Politics

" I've been doing this since I was 12... I don't want to act much longer; I can't do one thing my whole life. "

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

" It's interesting the kind of freedom the musical form gives you. The rules are out the window. You can get impressionistic without seeming pretentious. Because it's perceived as an inherently accessible form, it gives filmmakers some leeway. "

" I grew up in a family of strong women and I owe any capacity I have to understand women to my mother and big sister. They taught me to respect women in a way where I've always felt a strong emotional connection to women, which has also helped me in the way I approach my work as an actor. "

" Most movies, you have to try and forget you're making a movie, because there are trailers and booms and lights and marks, and it's everywhere. "

" 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. "