Actor Quotes

I'm not lying, every single project I've done, they've all been great.

I'm definitely a people pleaser. I like people to be happy around me and be comfortable. I go out of my way, sometimes to a fault, to make sure everyone is okay.

I went to Duke, which is... a Top Five school. Not community college. But whatever.

I wasn't sued out of medicine, I wasn't arbitrated out of the profession.

I think I've been asked just about every question under the sun. I'm just really honored that people are even interested in asking me questions.

I think everyone's different but in comedy, I try to do my scene to make the director and the other actors laugh. If I can make them laugh and we have the same sensibility, then I'm on the right page.

I really realize the more movies I do just how important - it's so cliche when people say it, because everybody says it nowadays - but it's so important to keep it grounded. I totally understand what that means.

I have a very simple approach in career: You work with the people you love.

I grew up in North Carolina, and I grew up on wrestling.

I always just loved to laugh. I always just loved it as a kid.

When there is tension, arguments and money problems, it's tough to do your work. Some people thrive on that. I don't.

When I was a kid, I loved horror films. I used to stay up on Saturday night to watch.

There's nothing like walking onto a Hollywood sound stage.

I like relaxed sets. I like to feel that I can make a mistake without feeling like I'm costing somebody money. I like a sense of freedom. I like it when people are open and are willing to let you do your work.

I don't watch the dailies. You want to just turn in your resignation when you watch the dailies.

But I loved making 'Eat Pray Love,' and I loved working with Julia Roberts.

Any time you die in a film, it's not real, so it's all kind of fun.

A Western would be good. I'd love to do a Western.

Usually you talk about directors in terms of the way they choose camera lenses or a kind of light to create a certain effect. But to me the most valuable commodity for a movie to create is a feeling of life, and that's what A Hard Day's Night has in spades.

Knowing what I do now, I don't know if I'd ever have the balls to go to film school, with no connections and no knowledge of the business side at all.

It was a wealthy family, and they heard me talk about movies, and they told me I should go into movies. That's the benefit of hanging out with rich people; they have no sense of what is or isn't possible.

If you blithely do what you do and you're good at what you do, and try to be a decent person, you can succeed.

Basically, when I look at my life, I think I'm lucky to be given the opportunities I've had.

And shooting things in a documentary style was a good way to create tension and energy without money.

I come from a background of hanging out with friends and shooting videos with them, with funny stuff coming out of the group. I guess we got the same charge jocks get out of sports.

To stand there and do nothing on film is probably the hardest thing to do.

To me, it's the kiss of death when you start winking at the audience as an actor. I just never liked it. I don't like it when we do monologues, looking into the character.

Some of the supporting roles that I've done as an actor, I took them because I knew that I would get to watch some of the leading guys in the movies, and also I'd get to work with them.

My dad was an entrepreneurial businessman, and maybe I got some of his ability.

Most of my career up until the last couple of years has basically been a training ground for me. Actors that came up in the '50s and '60s, they had the theater, and television was in its infancy.