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"My father was a police officer before he retired. One of my brothers is also a police officer, and I think they kind of expected I would do something along those lines, like become a fireman or something."

"When I meet thousands of fans of the comic - when I realize every one of them can recite the Lantern Corps oath ('In Brightest Day, in blackest night...') - I know how important this is to people."

"Acting has given me a way to channel my angst. I feel like an overweight, pimply faced kid a lot of the time - and finding a way to access that insecurity, and put it toward something creative is incredibly rewarding. I feel very lucky."

"We might be too proud to admit it as guys, but we still need to learn how to manage responsibility, how to face our challenges."

"We started training a month before the movie started and then by five months in, we were at our peak shape."

"Four months after we finished shooting, I'd been in New Orleans shooting another movie and my agent and I were having a bite to eat - actually in London - and he's sitting there and goes, 'Wow, I just can't believe how ripped you are.'"

"I remember being upset because I was finally legal to drink in Canada, and I decided to throw that all away and move to America, where I had to wait another two years. I came here to do improv and to try to join the Groundlings."

"He has such a clear vision of exactly what he wanted out of each character, out of each set, out of each wardrobe change, out of each emotional beat, and action."
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"I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting."

"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."

"Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better."

"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."

"I have no complaints with the whole childhood acting thing, because I wanted to do it."

"You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie stardom."
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