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Born: 1974-12-17
Profession: Actor
Nation: American
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I'm old fashioned with my cell phone. I like that human contact and I think it's important.

Tags: Human, Old, Phone

You have to take into account it was the cell phone that became what the modern-day concept of a phone call is, and this is a device that's attached to your hip 24/7. Before that there was 'leave a message' and before that there was 'hopefully you're home.'

Tags: Call, Home, Leave

Dostoevski was on to something. You are the path you choose. You are what your vocation is.

Tags: Choose, Path, Vocation

I could almost say it is my religion. I guess that sounds pretentious, but I want to live and breathe cinema.

Tags: Almost, Guess, Religion

I love talking about Scientology.

Tags: Love, Talking

I want to be a part of something that's good and intellectually challenging.

Tags: Good

I've been allowed to grow over the past twenty years. I've managed to avoid being trapped in one moment of my career and for that, I'm very thankful.

Tags: Career, Past, Thankful

Those people are unabashedly ruthless as far as money is concerned.

Tags: Concerned, Far, Money

For me, acting is all about the aesthetic. I just want to keep honing my craft. Not that I'm taking myself too seriously, but every artist should consider himself Picasso. Otherwise, you're doing yourself an injustice.

Tags: Acting, Keep, Yourself

I grew up with Scientology - my parents at one point were clerical. It's a pragmatic philosophy, not merely a belief system. Yeah, it's had media exposure because certain luminaries do Scientology, but millions of people do it who are not celebrities. It's not a threat or some cult.

Tags: Parents, Philosophy, Point

I just consider myself a committed actor. If a movie is a success, that's great; I'm happy for that. But I've learned just to concentrate on my job and do the best that I can.

Tags: Best, Great, Success

I used to shy away from publicity so as not to let it get in the way of the work. But it's part of the job. The tabloids are a whole other arena. If fame happens, it happens. I just want to maintain focus.

Tags: Focus, Job, Work

I'm really happy with where I am, the movies in my life. Not satisfied, necessarily. But I won't put it on somebody else, blame anybody else for my position in the business. It's the choices I have made.

Tags: Business, Life, Movies

I'm so critical of myself. I'm actually really, really proud of the film. It's really cool to see a movie at Sundance because everybody is so supportive.

Tags: Cool, Film, Proud

If I had to choose criteria, for me, it's about first the director. I want to be a part of something that's good and intellectually challenging. After the director it's the character and the story. That's the deal for me.

Tags: After, Character, Good

It was extremely useful to grow up in front of the camera. It gives the camera no significance. I think it helped me have perspective on things. The attraction that Hollywood can have, I feel like I'm over that. Instead I just concentrate on acting.

Tags: Acting, Grow, Hollywood

My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I was four. My father and my grandfather saw at least one or two movies a week; they were film buffs, so I guess it just rubbed off on me.

Tags: Father, Mother, Movies

My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I was four. My father and my grandfather saw at least one or two movies a week; they were film buffs, so I guess it just rubbed off on me. And now it's kind of become a way of life for me.

Tags: Life, Mother, Movies

There's the concept that if I do this big budget project, then that will help me do the things I really want to do and bring more money to those films.

Tags: Big, Help, Money

We went to - I guess it was a legitimate boiler room, and I sat in front of this guy who literally was on the phone with two people at once. They call it double fisting.

Tags: Call, Guy, Once

What's sad is that there is an addictive quality to that, to believing your own hype; to allowing yourself to become validated by others and no longer by yourself. That's the danger of celebrity.

Tags: Others, Sad, Yourself
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