This is going to sound ridiculous, but I remember watching 'Boyz n the Hood,' and there is a scene where Cuba Gooding, Jr. gets pressed against a car by a police officer, and he starts crying because it's so humiliating. I remember thinking in that moment that I could totally identify with him, and I'm a little white kid from Canada.

I had a lot of romanticised ideas of what Detroit was like, but I didn't get there until I was 30, and it was very different than I had imagined it.

I feel like I think like a woman because I grew up with my mother and my sister, so I've just been programmed to think like a girl.

If I eat a huge meal and I can get the girl to rub my belly, I think that's about as romantic as I can think of.

I don't like the process of meeting someone and you make a film and that's it. You think you're just getting started, and then it's over.

If I have any particular appeal to women, maybe it's because I listen more than other guys do and appreciate how they think and feel about things.

I'm not very good at knowing what people want. I don't have that talent. The best I can do is make films that resonate with me and see what happens.

I always wanted to do a comedy, but I wanted to pick the right one. But it came down to working with Steve Carell. I've wanted to work with him since I met him years ago as a kid.

There's good things about going to church.

I don't even think of myself as particularly good looking, and not at all a typical kind of Hollywood leading man sort of actor.

My first exposure to what Hollywood was like, behind the scenes, was when Joel Silver started screaming at Roger Rabbit at the beginning of 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit.'

It's weird to have no control over something that you're involved in.

I always wanted to entertain. When I was six, a scrawny, scrawny kid, I'd get in my red speedo and do muscle moves. I actually thought I was muscular. I didn't know everyone was laughing at me.

I think that you can sort of have your own personal journey and you know, you can just kind of apply that to whatever characters you're playing.

I don't like to be entertaining. I don't like the feeling of being entertaining. If there was a musical or a comedy that was not just for entertainment but was rooted in something I could relate to on a real level, then I think I would do it.

Actors become very professional and proficient about watching out for each other's light and not stepping on each other's lines.

I'm waiting to get old - I think old guys with tattoos look good.

When you drive, you can kind of put your identity aside in the passenger's seat because you're not being watched, and you can just be the watcher.

I did put on weight for the last half of the film, but the Ferris wheel scene was shot with a harness on me so that if I fell I wouldn't fall all the way.

My sister and I used to sing at weddings. We would sing 'When a Man Loves a Woman' to the bride. We'd do it right before the garter ceremony.

It's not good just to have life experience of film-making and that's all. It's hard to play a real person when you've been in jets and town cars for three years.

I did this scene in 'Lars and the Real Girl' where I was in a room full of old ladies who were knitting, and it was an all-day scene, so they showed me how. It was one of the most relaxing days of my life.

My mother had to tailor what I watched.

I don't know specifically what scenes I'd like to see violence in - I crave violence when I'm watching a John Hughes movie.