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Quotes
As a kid I had a hard time reading in school. I was the kid who would go
one period a day to the class for kids with learning disabilities.
I loved Old
School. I thought Old School was very different than a lot of the
comedies that had come out. And that character I liked. I tried to
ground him very much in reality and play him very much finding things
important to him that are somewhat ridiculous.
I moved out
at 18. I always studied classes and trained a lot, you know. I think
nowadays is such a different time because there's so many channels
promoting the celebrity aspect of things.
I think too
many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music,
singing and performing, it's all make-believe.
I was lucky
I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot
of girls that I was friends with that I wasn't sexual with. I think
having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like
people, so I can just go up and say whatever.
I'm into
the Play Station now and I just got the Super Nintendo. I like the
sports a lot, like hockey and football. I recently got into these
solve-a-mystery games. They're like a bad drug. They just chuck two
weeks out of your life.
If I'm not
interested in a woman, I'm straight-forward. Right after sex, I usually
say, 'I can't do this anymore. Thanks for coming over!'
The last
book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The
Fountainhead.
Whenever
you're scared of something, don't let that define you. We all feel it,
but step up.
You don't
worry about being liked. You have to be yourself.
The best thing as an actor,
the best tool you have is your imagination. That you kind of take things
that have happened, and then go and expand on them. However small it is,
you use your imagination to create what that reality is.
There's something kind of fun
when you're not old enough to do anything, driving a car, getting into a
bar, drinking, going to a party you don't belong to, something when
you're young in that innocent way.
I've never done a romantic
comedy, because it seems they can't just tell a love story. It's always
something like a radio station does a poll and decides these two people
will get along, and if they do they get a million dollars. You don't
need all of that to get into a love story.
We were out of work actors who
played a lot of video games, so we were sort of surprised that Swingers
was seen as cool. I think any cool in it was a geekiness, an awkwardness
that most people can relate to.
There's a lot of pressure not
to make rated R movies and if you do make rated R movies, there's a
pressure to be shocking just for shock's sake. And we don't want to do
that either. I don't want to try to out gross everybody.
That's not my style. I don't
want to go and just be shocking to see if I get a response. If it makes
sense within the course of the film, then it's great.
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