Starting at about, I guess, forever, I’ve always looked forward to getting older. When I was 14, I couldn’t wait to be 16 and get a driver’s license.
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What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and ‘going’ with this girl, ‘Is this true love?’
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I personally don’t like to go see romantic comedies. But people do want to see them, and they seem to want to see me in them.
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There aren’t many things that are universally cool, and it’s cool not to litter. I’d never do it.
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The unsaid rule for living in a trailer park is: ‘If the door’s shut, don’t come a-knockin.’ But if it’s open and you’re walkin’ by, feel free to say, ‘Hello.’
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I don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.
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My whole family are hams. They’re storytellers and everyone outdoes the next one.
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There are a whole bunch of roles where people say, ‘Oh, you’re playing yourself.’ I guess it’s kind of a compliment.
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You don’t play characters that are celebrities – you play guys who know what to do when their septic tank’s blocked.
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Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.
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In whatever adulation you get, there’s truth and there’s not truth. And wherever they dog you, and they say it was horrible – there’s truth and there’s not truth. It’s human nature to like to read the adulation more.
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You hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else’s life. That’s what’s fun about sharing art.
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There’s two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.
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I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.
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There’s a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.
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Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.
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