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" You can only be yourself, and it sounds cheesy, but when it comes to filmmaking, there's really nowhere to hide. "

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" If I'm still acting at 46, I'll be surprised. "

" I guess there's something about you don't know why you're attracted to a character, but you're attracted to them enough to want to - it's like when a song comes on, and you feel like dancing. You don't know why; you just want to dance. It's hard to analyze that feeling, and if you do, you get far away from it. "

" Show me a man who wouldn't give it all up for Emma Stone, and I'll show you a liar. "

" What a lot of people don't understand about the NC-17, which I didn't understand, is that you can't show it in major theater chains - and you can't even air spots for your film on television. It really stigmatizes the movie. "

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

" 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 was highly influenced by violence. "

" 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. "

" I did put on weight for the last half of the film, but the Ferris wheel scene was shot with a harness on me so that if I fell I wouldn't fall all the way. "

" I never was that boy who loved gangster films, but when I was growing up, I was obsessed with the detective Dick Tracy. It was one of my favourite movies as a kid, and he really inspired me. I would have loved to be part of that golden age of Hollywood in the 1940s. It made me want to become an actor. "

" I read a lot of script. In my opinion, most of them aren't good or aren't about people. "

" I don't believe in ghosts. "

" My first exposure to what Hollywood was like, behind the scenes, was when Joel Silver started screaming at Roger Rabbit at the beginning of 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit.' "

" 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. "

" Any time you stick your neck out in high school, there's someone right there to chop your head off. "

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

" 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. "

" When I made 'The Notebook,' the director, Nick Cassavetes, who is John's son, used to show me his father's movies. "

" You feel good if you've done hard work. You sleep better. You get stuck in your head if you have too much time to think. "

" Freedom is such a gift. "

" I feel like one of the things that I watched that I felt was really helpful in some way but, more than anything, is worth mentioning was this film 'Boogie Man.' It's a documentary about Lee Atwater. "

" 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. "

" For me, I sort of felt like it was kind of a fairytale... but an interesting one. I don't know of anybody who has had a romance quite like this, but I certainly know people who have stuck it out. "

" If I eat a huge meal and I can get the girl to rub my belly, I think that's about as romantic as I can think of. "

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

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" My mother had to tailor what I watched. "

" My uncle was an Elvis impersonator - his name was Perry, and he went by 'Elvis Perry' - and my work as a wedding singer landed me a spot in his act. "

" I'm just sort of making it up as I go along. "

" My home life now is mostly women. They are better than us. They make me better. "

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