I had a gun on the table. I was outta here, i didn't want to be alive anymore when all this happened. Shame like I had never experienced before — the kind of shame that you forget how to breathe. You don't know where to go. You can't go outside and get like, a taco.

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I go to sleep at night, and I feel like I just dreamed the whole day.

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sleep feels night

I became a Christian man in a very real way. I could have just said the prayers that were on the page, but it was a real thing that really saved me. And you can't identify unless you're really going through it. It's a full-blown exchange of heart, a surrender of control.

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real prayer christian

You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.

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successful yale want

Sometimes I feel I'm living a meaningless life, and I get frightened.

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frightened feels sometimes

But this is a little different. This is the adult acting. This is a different crowd. It's more work and more good work. That's it. People will have their opinion regardless.

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adults acting people

I don't have to live this lavish lifestyle.

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lavish-lifestyle lifestyle

Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.

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adversity men way

I love doing stuff that I haven't done before. That's the goal: To keep reinventing myself.

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done goal stuff

Talent is to actors what luck is to card players. Its not really anything; its just a fictitious word that people have created and labeled things. Talent is like, you know, I never really believed in talent, I believed in drive and determination and preparation, but talent is sort of like luck.

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determination player people

It's really easy to fall for someone on-set, but in the end you know, it's a representative and it's not really them.

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ends easy fall

I'm constantly jumping off cliffs and developing my wings on the way down. ... It's a gamble, a ... spiritual gamble. You are who you choose to be.

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jumping spiritual wings

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.

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dating clubs drug

If you can mix Hilary Duff and Gary Oldman into the same actor, that's my goal. I know it's strange to think about, but that's the goal.

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actors goal thinking

To be an actor, a true actor, you have to be brokenhearted.

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brokenhearted actors

Copying isn’t particularly creative work. Being inspired by someone else’s idea to produce something new and different IS creative work.

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copying creative ideas

Oh yeah, I'm the president of the lucky club. There are so many talented people who don't work. And the crop of young actors I'm surrounded by is incredible. When you have people like that around you it amps you up a little bit. Also, Emile Hirsch and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, or guys like Ryan Gosling. It's a really good crowd and I feel I'm coming up at a good time. But equally, there's a lot of good young actors who don't get to work who are more talented than I. I'm just lucky.

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guy president people

All of the things that have happened in my life have been self-propelled. I can't blame anybody else or point a finger at anybody.

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fingers blame self

I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.

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crowds wish art

I've learned to be more reserved, watch what I'm saying; I got in a little bit of trouble. People tell me 'Never lose that, never lose that,' but then I get in trouble so I have to lose it. I'm trying to keep a little bit; I'm never going to lose who I am, I just gotta tone it down a little bit.

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who-i-am trying people

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.

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falling-in-love teamwork sports