Sometimes being an actor is kind of demanding in very different ways.
If you have kids, you feel everything stronger. It's like someone turning the lights on in your inner room.
I find that I kind of have to sink into the character.
Celebrity never really served me that well; it serves other people well.
Some people go to their job. That's the job they have; they have to do it. They hate their boss and their coworkers, this and that. It's hard to get along.
Most of my acting jobs have resulted in a series of mortifying revelations spread over years and years following the shoot.
I love to think about and therefore talk about why people do what they do. That's kind of why I like being an actor.
Truth is, there's never really been anything so horrible said about me that I haven't either thought of or said to myself.
When other people say, 'Oh you're so-and-so's friend, brother, or husband,' it's reductive to the point of being white noise.
Lots of movies don't kind of work as well as they do on the page.
I've seen 'Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' about 25 times each, so I like all kinds of movies, but I'm drawn, as an actor, to dramas about humans living lives I can relate to.
Talking to other people about a part is not helpful for me. It's such an internal and complicated and still kind of mysterious process.
I like studio movies; I love big commercial movies.
I feel really lucky to have been able to not only have him as a brother - because I love him and he's such a smart guy and an interesting, fun guy - but also have a friend to go through and chart and navigate the waters of Hollywood, which can be kind of alienating and lonely at times just because everyone is always... you know what it's like.
