I went to film school so I have a writing and directing background, and I think a lot of the material I'm interested in writing and getting out there is stories about anti-heroes and people you should just not ordinarily root for - trying to figure out a way of appealing to people they wouldn't normally appeal to.

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Confidence and a good sense of humor can usually win a chick over.

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Man, I'm just into Buddhism, and I'm at peace with the fact that me, as this person, probably gonna not be around. Think about a hermit crab, okay? And it's a shell. It's like, they go from one shell to the next. And that's what I am. I'm just a hermit crab changin' shells.

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The whole experience of 'Eastbound' has been completely unexpected and super-surprising every step of the way.

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I've always had the hair of Lionel Ritchie since I was a boy, but the mullet sadly is a hairpiece. My wife won't let me rock that hairstyle.

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The one thing about being a parent is the ability to be selfless: To give up the things you want and need for the benefit of someone else.

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I had a classic gym teacher in junior high who wore a weightlifter's belt all the time.

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On a human level, people want to see someone succeed who wants to change.

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When I met David Green at film school he always used to offer free haircuts - he was kind of an artisan. In a lot of our films, he's constantly trying to give me weird looks.

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As an actor, you don't want to be typecast, because Hollywood is so quick to put you in things that you've succeeded in before.

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You know, a lot of those angry sort of Southern man characters that I've been doing are based on different people I might've had as, like, a soccer coach or as a teacher.

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My first job was at an amusement park in Virginia. It was the worst. I loved the park but once I'd worked there all the magic was gone from it. It just turned into a place I hated and I've never been there since.

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In my school, people liked the gym teachers because they were the football or soccer coaches. But look, if they're cool, they get respect.

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So I just came out here to Los Angeles with a bunch of buddies I had gone to film school with. You know, for better or worse, we just tried to slug it out here.

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I can't even remember not wanting to go to film school.

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When we do comedy, for me, the comedy has to feel real, it has to be grounded, you gotta find what makes this person seem real and seem relatable.

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You're on what looks like a spaceship. You feel the claustrophobia, i could remember there was something where we are in pursuit and it felt real. You saw the guy come out of the chamber in costume... It does spark something in you.

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And I'm a pretty avid photographer, I've been into photography for years now, so I try to spend some of my free time with that.

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I usually choose movies that I would want to see. I appreciate drama and if the right script came across my desk, drama you will see.

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It's awesome to see something like 'Inception', which is just mind-blowing and amazing, and it actually resonates with the audiences. I feel like that's rare.

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It's a big battle to bring quality stuff into theaters across America, for sure.

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