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The role of Rimbaud is one of the most important roles to play for a young actor.

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I went to a concert once when I was a little kid and ran up onstage, started dancing, started saying anything that came to my head. I was like a little vaudevillian.

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I couldn't deal with playing a character who rides motorcycles and has a leather jacket and is a tough kid, y'know?

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My dad's probably one of the kindest people in the world. When I was younger that's not how I was- I was a little spoiled brat.

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I just really love doing what I do. I know every career is fleeting and there will be time periods when I don't get the opportunities that I'm getting right now, so I am taking advantage of them.

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Meryl Streep does things I would never have thought possible... Her presence on screen is outstanding.

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I am trying to do the best work I possibly can and making movies that will have resonance for years to come. I think if you try for an Oscar or a goal like that, the more people are going to see it as transparent. It's not on my radar. If it happens, great, but I'm happy to continue working as I am, really.

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I really hate relaxing. I've done three movies in a row, worked for two years straight, and to me, idle time is the devil's workshop. I like to focus on something.

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When you are given an opportunity to make a film like 'Body of Lies' - and I would put 'Blood Diamond' in the same category - of course you jump at these opportunities.

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I've been planted here to be a vessel for acting... That's why I'm really taking any part, regardless of how complicated it's going to be.

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Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act.

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I believe, you know, as history unfolds, certain films will disappear, and certain ones will stand the test of time. And you never know which ones those are. And you've just got to go for the opportunities of films you think might be memorable.

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Money was always on my mind when I was growing up. So I was always wondering how we were going to afford this and that. Acting seemed to be a shortcut out of the mess.

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The first kiss I had was the most disgusting thing in my life. The girl injected about a pound of saliva into my mouth, and when I walked away I had to spit it all out.

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I'm not the kind of person who tries to be cool or trendy, I'm definitely an individual.

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I really don't know what I'm doing... I don't. It's terrible. I go in there and I learn how to be like the character and do the best I can, and that's all I really do.

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I'm just starting to scratch the surface of what really makes me happy and it's taken me a while to admit that acting like a little child and being a jerk and a punk is fun.

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My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II.

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I was always the kid in school who tried to get attention, not necessarily the class clown, but I'd do little unexpected performances.

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There is a lot of speculation about what women are attracted to, and there are a lot of misconceptions.

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Being dubbed as a hunk sort of annoys me. It gives me a yucky feeling.

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I am friends with Demi. Don't believe anything you read.

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I don't watch anything of mine much. I haven't gone to drama school, or college, either. I just like to watch other actors in action. I learned so much from working with De Niro. I'd be in a scene with him where I was supposed to be acting, and I was just watching.

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I haven't died in a movie in a while,'The Departed,' 'Body of Lies,' 'Revolutionary Road,' 'Shutter Island' and 'Inception.' I guess I did die in 'The Departed.'

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To be honest, I'm not really prepared to do a musical, simply because I think I have a pretty atrocious voice.

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I like stories in specific time periods. 'The Revenant's' era of American history was fascinating because it was this lawless no-man's land. It defined the idea of the American frontiersman as man conquering nature. In a way, the story of Hugh Glass is about man dominating nature.

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I saw all the moral decay you could, beginning at 2 years old. But I also got to see how the other half lived.

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I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.

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I've been very lucky to have achieved a lot of the things that I dreamt of achieving as a young man. But, at the end of the day - and I truly believe this - it is not about achieving great wealth or success. Because they don't bring happiness, ultimately.

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Hopefully I've gotten better as an actor as the years have gone on, but the type of work I want to do has never changed.

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I've gotten to go to far-off places in the world, have very unique, isolated, intense experiences for four or five months at a time, and then, kind of like a dream, those things disappear. You may see those people again, but it's never, ever going to be as intense as it was for that time period.

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My friends have named me the person they least want to do extreme adventures with, because I always seem to be very close to being part of a disaster. If a cat has nine lives, I think I've used a few.

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I remember reading the book in high school and always thinking of Gatsby as this strong, stoic, suave, mysterious man who had everything under control. But when I read it as an adult, I realised he is a hollow man, a shell of a person trying to find meaning, who is not completely in touch with reality.

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