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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Toronto is a special city, and the environment is perfect for the arts; free and alive. I'm a New Yorker, and Toronto reminds me of a much cleaner New York, so it's like coming home after your mom just cleaned your room for you; for me that's a lovely environment. "

" 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 love a good loser. "

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

" 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. "

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

" The old joke in my family is that the last person who isn't from New York was coming from Russia. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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