I just graduated from high school, and I was working at Blockbuster. Not only did I get into movies while I was there, but I was putting away boxes and looking at the kids on the covers. It felt like windows into these seemingly perfect lives.
ADAM BRODYI have been in teen shows for years, so doing that stuff – kissing – is kind of commonplace and not a big deal. It was way more cool just because it was Meg Ryan.
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I feel like Hollywood is a big high school again. Seriously, Ashton Kutcher is the prom king.
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I started drinking Scotch just to be a man.
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Really, as long as I am working and have diversity, I am happy.
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I don’t know anyone who’s going to see Grind 22 times in the theater. My mom. Some kid who has short-term memory loss and forgot that he’s seen it.
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I have a pretty lousy voice.
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I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.
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There’s no conversation more boring than talking about what it’s really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don’t care.
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My best jokes are so cheap. All I do is say things sarcastically.
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I do think that sometimes you can invent more palatable or digestible reasons versions or reasons, when perhaps you don’t want to admit the truth to yourself, and sometimes we deceive ourselves – along with others – about our reasons and motives.
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Welcome to a life of insecurity and paralyzing self-doubt.
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It’s bad writing, however naturalistic it’s written, that’s where you have to do your best acting.
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It’s very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that’s half the battle of life.
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If I don’t direct a movie at some point, I’ve failed personally.
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I’m a fake intellectual.
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Okay, using the dreaded middle name is not the best way to forge a bond.
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I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
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And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward can be slightly cool.
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I try to make all of my roles likeable in some way.
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Transitioning to being an unemployed film actor is different, but it’s fun and I’ve been looking forward to it for a while.
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I have been in teen shows for years, so doing that stuff – kissing – is kind of commonplace and not a big deal. It was way more cool just because it was Meg Ryan.
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I’ve had to fight for roles and I’ve lost a hundred roles, but ‘Smoking’ and ‘Smith’ were phone calls. That’s the dream.
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I like an interesting movie even if it’s controversial or offensive, depending on your taste.
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I like great directors who are scarce. Prolific ones are nice too but for me, there’s something about the scarcity that makes it all the more valuable.
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I wish I came from a more pure place. I don’t have something to say from the bottom of my soul. I just know how to take stuff I like and repackage it in a slightly different way.
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I love movie-making. I’m interested in writing and directing, and I’ve dabbled, but I haven’t done anything I care to brag about. Yet.
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I worry that I can come off smarmy. I wonder if I was listening to myself if I’d want to kick my own ass.
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