I feel like everything has happened naturally.
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.
What's nice with comedy is that you know it's working if it's funny.
Acting isn't that hard, really. I mean, I think that people make a big deal about it, but you just kind of try to say your lines naturally.
I just sort of take it from a character perspective, and I don't know if he was necessarily spiritual, but I do think he had hope. He was a character that was comfortable having hope in his life, and hope is faith.
I need a break from myself as much as I imagine the audience does.
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.
For now, I'm just going to keep doing the work and hope I don't get fired. If people want to put me up on their walls, I'll love it.
When I made 'The Notebook,' the director, Nick Cassavetes, who is John's son, used to show me his father's movies.
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 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.
I did what I had to do to get where I wanted to go. I had unearned confidence.
I don't even think of myself as particularly good looking, and not at all a typical kind of Hollywood leading man sort of actor.
I think it's more interesting to see people who don't feel appropriately. I relate to that, because sometimes I don't feel anything at all for things I'm supposed to, and other times I feel too much. It's not always like it is in the movies.
I just have my own taste, and I just try and stick with that. I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can for as long as I have an opportunity to.
You know us crazy kids. We'll do anything crazy to our hair.
There used to be a candy called 'Bonkers,' which I believe to be the greatest candy of all time.
I grew up on Shane Black movies, and I grew up on Joel Silver movies.
Hollywood usually doesn't have strong woman in films like that, and it's stupid, so for the most part they're usually being directed and written by men.
Freedom is such a gift.
When my mother and I walked to the grocery store, men would circle the block in cars. It was very, very scary, especially as a young boy. Very predatory - a hunt.
I think we just knew that we had a movie when Rachel walked in the room.
I felt like I was going crazy as a kid. I wanted to be man, get a job.
I've been thinking about a bank robbery my whole life.
Falling in love is a narcissistic endeavor. You play the role of lover, and you find someone to act it out on.
I love 'An American in Paris.' That's the one for me. Some of the visual ideas in that film are just haunting and very free.
It was a strange experience, making a love story and not getting along with your co-star in any way.
I don't know enough about manliness to define it.
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 know specifically what scenes I'd like to see violence in - I crave violence when I'm watching a John Hughes movie.
You can only be yourself, and it sounds cheesy, but when it comes to filmmaking, there's really nowhere to hide.
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.
If people want to put me up on their walls, I'll love it.
I'd like to see some Broadway shows at some point in time.
This is going to sound ridiculous, but I remember watching 'Boyz n the Hood,' and there is a scene where Cuba Gooding, Jr. gets pressed against a car by a police officer, and he starts crying because it's so humiliating. I remember thinking in that moment that I could totally identify with him, and I'm a little white kid from Canada.
They say never meet your heroes. But the addendum to that is 'unless they're Harrison Ford.'