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"I've been in fights, but that doesn't make me cool or like a tough guy or more interesting actor, I'm not proud of it."
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"When you're a young actor you like to go for characters with a bit of flair, so in many films I ended up playing the weirdos. I can assure you I'm not a psycho or a criminal or a bully."

"The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process."

"I certainly was an actor and then I drifted more towards writing and directing."

"Being unemployed is not good for an actor. No, it isn't, no matter how unsuccessful you are. Because you always remember getting fired from all the restaurants. You remember that stuff very, very strongly."
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"And if you're a golfer and you watch a golf film and Matt Damon swing, and it's not great, then you're not going to believe in the golf story, you're not going to believe in the rest of the film. That's the whole movie, so if that swing looks like crap, the movie's crap."


"I want my audience to know me for my work, not because of who I'm dating or what drugs I'm on or what club I went to."


"I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful."


"I don't know, I just want to be happy. I could be in a hole somewhere. Or I could completely lose it and be some hippy living in the woods with my dad."


"I hated golf when we first started, but a big part of the training process was falling in love with this sport, so I went on tour with the UCLA Team."


"You never really meet a human being until you live with them or know them for awhile, so this is my clown and they understand that and so these interviews don't bother them."
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