Dating someone on the opposite end of the happy spectrum teaches you an incredible amount of patience.

Film is just a different version of what we did round the campfire when we were Neanderthals. We tell stories so people can learn things and relativise things.

For me growing up, Christmas time was always the most fantastic, exciting time of year, and you'd stay up until three in the morning. You'd hear the parents wrapping in the other room but you knew that also, maybe, they were in collusion with Santa Claus.

I think we just live in a time of the selfie. So there's a sense that everyone's uniqueness and importance on this planet should be displayed and reveled in, and that there's kind of a piece of glory for everyone.

The first audition I went out on was because my father was on an audition for a TV show called the 'Gilmore Girls,' and that kind of snowballed a lot of stuff in my life.

I never really thought about myself being in really big movies at all. In fact, I always though I'd do, I don't know, smaller movies is not quite the right word, but more character-oriented, dramatic things. I took myself a little bit seriously.

My father calls acting 'a state of permanent retirement with short spurts of work.'

If you had no real training, if you hadn't spent years and years studying a martial art, how would you kill the bad guy?

I like a fragrance that you notice and want to find out more about - get a bit closer. I don't want to walk in and be jolted awake by someone's smell.

The mass audience doesn't want to see you if you aren't perfect. If you don't look a certain way, if you don't have big pecs and great skin and the perfect eyes. And it's unfortunate, because kids are growing up with body image dysmorphia because not everyone is represented on the screen.

Therapy's like going to the gym.

You can be many miles away and press a button on a keyboard, and it can cause devastation.

One thing that I do find really sexy is a girl who's good at crossword puzzles.

There have been, like, three auditions in my life where I feel like I'm in a 'Saturday Night Live' skit.

When I was a younger actor, I was pretty much solely motivated by validation. I just wanted to be told I was good and handsome and a part of the gang. It was pretty simple animal-social stuff. I don't care as much about those things anymore.

The things that motivated me at 21 don't suffice. Which is scary but really liberating in a way. It's taken me a long time to feel like, instead of being invited to the party with a bunch of people I don't know, that I actually deserve to be here.

I had a job at this French restaurant, and I hated it. I don't like serving; I don't like getting people ketchup.

I have such awful skin; it doesn't matter what magic serum they think they're putting on - I'll usually break out.

Action films unfortunately don't let you spend a lot of time sitting. So you don't have much time to create something indelible or unique.

Musical theater is great; you get painted up, you get to play princesses and witches, and you sing. The joy alone of that can really carry a lot.

You see Justin Bieber and Robert Pattinson, what they go through, and dude, that's not as exciting as it looks.

I was never much of a musical theater guy, but I have so much more respect for the art form, the physical exertion of doing eight shows on Broadway a week, I cannot even fathom it.

It's so rare to get all of your muscles firing at once. That's what I look for in any role.

I always enjoyed singing; I played guitar.