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My life has been the antithesis of that book ‘The Secret’. I’ve always been interested in doing what I do. I love storytelling and I really enjoyed acting, but it never seemed like a realistic thing.

Aaron Stanford

People love roller coasters. People love skydiving. These things that really get your heart pumping, and horror films are sort of a safe way to get that rush I guess.
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Coasters Film Guess Heart Horror People Pumping Roller Rush Skydiving
It’s nice to know when you’re a part of a story, it’s nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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Beginning End Middle Nice Stories
I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.
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Bring Character Interesting Myself Something Trying
The best compliment was Ben Kingsley coming up to me, putting his hand on the back of my neck, and saying, “Good job, son.”.
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Coming Compliment Hand Job Neck Son
Of course, I’m not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.
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Allowed Couse Good Really Script Story Talking
You know all those dangerous mutants you hear about in the news? I’m the worst one.
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Dangerous Hear Mutants News One Worst
You find parallels, points of connection, things like that. But I’m not an actor who gets so incredibly haunted by my characters that I can’t come back.
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Character Connection Haunted Incredibly Parallel Point Thing
You have to find it in the moment, and that’s one of the challenges of being an actor – especially a film actor – is that you have to maintain these heightened emotions for long periods of time. There’s no trick to it. You just have to do.
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Actor Challenge Emotion Especially Heightened Long Moment Time
You always take a little bit back with you at the end of the day. I always put a little bit of myself into the characters, too.
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Character Connection Day End Little Myself
I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.
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Actors Away Blue Chugging Collar Consider
Wes Craven is obviously a horror film icon so I was definitely very interested in bringing something back to life that Wes had created.
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Created Definitely Film Horror Icon Interested
But a lot of shows, they pose questions and they give you a puzzle where there’s no solution.
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Giving Lot Pose Puzzle Question Show Solution
I do know that I’ve read somewhere that it’s been statistically proven that in times of war, horror films are much more popular. I don’t know why that is. You’d think it’d be the opposite. You’d think people would want to escape from it.
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Horror Opposite Somewhere Thinking Time War
Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that’s interesting then we’ll want to do it.
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Actor Give Giving Interesting Love Story Storytelling Want
People have always liked to be frightened. People love to feel that jolt of adrenaline.
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Adrenaline Feel Frightened Heart Jolt Like People Safe
My life has been the antithesis of that book ‘The Secret’. I’ve always been interested in doing what I do. I love storytelling and I really enjoyed acting, but it never seemed like a realistic thing.
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Acting Antithesis Book Interested Life Secret The Secret
I’ve been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.
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Character Different Person Recognized Seldom Thinking
I didn’t follow the whole ‘X-Men’ story because it got too complicated. I’d pick up a comic book and have no idea what was going on.
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Book Comic Complicated Follow Idea Men Pick Story Whole

My life has been the antithesis of that book ‘The Secret’. I’ve always been interested in doing what I do. I love storytelling and I really enjoyed acting, but it never seemed like a realistic thing.

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