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Quotes by Actor

"I used to get quite upset that I'd make friends with a guy or a girl and then within the space of three years we'd move and go and live somewhere else, and you'd have to say goodbye to that person."

"I had a couple come in with a negative amortization mortgage on a house that costs way too much relative to their income. They're consuming real estate, not investing in it."

"Same thing, like my commercials are often times really funny because I tend to find 30 seconds is a really good amount of time to tell a joke."


"I'm like the universe; either expanding or contracting at any given moment. The most that I had put on was about 35, 36 pounds, and I've taken all of that off."

"How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand."

"I like to grow as an actor, and you can do that by playing parts that are unfamiliar to you and uncomfortable."

"I see Igby as my first movie as an adult, and it's a big deal for me because I really, really like the film."


"I wanted to be a pharmacist. I liked the way our local pharmacist was always dressed in a nice white coat; he looked very calm, you'd give him money, and he'd give you something that you wanted to buy."


"I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was to be your own boss. My father built up his business, and he was by no means a rich man, but he figured out how to work four-and-a-half days a week."

"Being a kid and growing up is such a cool part of life."

"I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men."

"So it's a source of fun and a source of pride to have been a part of this little movie that could."

"I do write about people who are complex and are striving with something and can't quite get past their own stuff, which would be a proxy for myself because that's what the deal is with me."

"I used to think then that I was Bohemian, but I know now that I am not. I prefer order and precision to untidiness and looseness."

"I got a job immediately after leaving high school; I was lucky - three dollars a week and all I could eat, working on a vegetable truck."

"A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can."

"Tony Hale is a devout Christian and is a complete retard when it comes to swearing. The script called for him to swear for about 30 seconds and he just couldn't do it."


"So I show appreciation for the little gifts that have been handed to me."


"You know, there's so much imitation and so much pandering in Hollywood."


"I wanted to go to regular high school - it looked like a lot of fun."

"There's a way about it: tearing people down, but not tearing them apart."

"I've gotten to go wonderful places, meet interesting and intelligent people, and I started of course in the theatre and continue to work in the theatre where there is some intelligence involved in it."

"I have to own something before I can say it, and I have to own it before I can sing it as well, emotionally. I only enjoy acting and singing if I am believing what I am doing."

"My nomadic childhood dramatically fed my eventual decision to be an actor, but not in the way you might think."


"Villains never know they are villains in a picture so I play this like I'm the nicest guy in the world."

"The whole industry is so screwed up by economics. It's disgusting to me."


"We felt like we just got surrounded by this community of friends."

"Some people say it's scarier to direct the people you work with; not me, I'm a team guy."

"You have to pay attention to the work on the page and make it as good as possible because it could be your last."
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