1. “I’m really good at judging and observing other people, but not myself.”
2. “The recipe for any character is always very interesting, as far as what doses of certain qualities you want.”
3. “Everything is a learning process: any time you fall over, it’s just teaching you to stand up the next time.”
4. “I often times find with movies that the heavier the onscreen situation is the more levity there is off screen. it’s almost out of necessity.”
5. “Basically you want as many people as possible to see your movie.”
6. “I always kept myself fairly fit.”
7. “I have a lot of ideas that I feel are half-formed, or half-way okay.”
8. “There’s something nice about making a night of the theater rather than sitting in front of your TV.”
9. “One of the things I’ve always enjoyed is moving around and staying fit. Physically is such a big part of being an actor, but it’s also about stillness and silence.”
10. “Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge a new skill-set.”
11. “It feels good to be fit and strong.”
12. “There’s a real sense of fighting and destruction in our DNA that we don’t get in touch with.”
13. “There’s definitely a fascination with crime stories and stories of characters acting out against authority.”
14. “One wrong move, and you destroy your career.”
15. “The sum total of all my stop-starts have made me less concerned about the future. I’m just aware now that I’ll always land on my feet somehow.”
16. “I really believe guilt finds its way out of a person.”
17. “Part of the privilege of being an actor is the people you get to work with.”
18. “The narrator of a documentary often comes in at the last minute and takes some o the glory they don’t deserve.”
19. “It’s easier to play aggression and malevolence onscreen, often, than to hit softer notes.”
20. “Polo is like playing golf with a saddle, and there are a lot of moving parts.”
21. “I’m pretty skeptical about Hollyhood and its fascination with sequel and the franchise.”
22. “You can’t really be picky when no one is offering you anything.”
23. “Really, no-one is bad except for serial killers and dictators.”
24. “I don’t necessarily see myself as an experienced filmmaker just because I’ve been in a few movies.”
25. “What an audience decides about where certain characters come from is really up to them.”
26. “Cultures render their icons in their own image. Which comes down to vanity, in some sense.”
27. “In love what I do, but it occurs to me I may have handed over a large portion of my life to fiction.”
28. “My whole journey and career has been really interesting, but the one element it never really had was any sense of great momentum.”
29. “I always wonder why people cast me in anything.”
30. “The only way for you to show what you can do is to actually do.”
