When I first starting making money, when I first made my first six-digits.
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There are certain nights you and your image just aren’t in the same bed.
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I love Los Angeles, and it’s been very good to me, but if everyone is running around telling the stories, who’s living them?
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I think the discipline comes with turning that cellphone and Blackberry off and unplugging completely.
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I will say this: one of the things that is a pain when you’re expecting children is how much advice unsolicited people give you when you’re not asking for it.
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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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You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.
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Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.
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We spend so much time sublimatin’, thinkin’ about, ‘What am I going to have for lunch, dinner?’
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I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.
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I don’t choose to insulate myself in engaging in real life. Hence, the public kind of almost knows me as much through my real life that they see through the rag mags.
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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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I’ve got a great sense of humor, and if I’m able to say or do something in a movie that people feel like they want to repeat, that’s hugely flattering.
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I’ve got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I’ve got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.
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We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.
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Life is a series of commas, not periods.
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Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.
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There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I’m trying to pull out of the ground that doesn’t want to come out? I know I’ll win.
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I say to the paparazzi, ‘Fellas, take your shot and go.’ It’s just they usually find me on a beach.
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I was raised on, ‘You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.’
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One of the great pleasures of going to see a Daniel Day-Lewis film: you haven’t seen him in five years. Where have you been?
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I was – my big thing was I went to put super unleaded in my truck for the first time.
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We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there’s enough room for all of us to succeed.
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There’s a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal is to try and close the gaps.
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I’m one of the most adaptable guys I know in as much as travelling is my favourite thing to do in life. With every place I go.
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I think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.
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I go on The Daily Beast. The Daily Beast is one of the websites that I check out.
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