One of the Canadian customs guards got suspicious and said 'Haven't you been coming and going across the border a lot lately?' I finally told him I was auditioning for Wolverine and everything changed. One minute it was get ready for the strip search, the next it was come on and sign six hundred autographs.

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The longer it takes you to become successful, the harder it will be for somebody else to take it away from you.

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In life you don't regret the things you do, you regret the things you don't do.

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If you accept the pain, it cannot hurt you.

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Unless you're willing to fail miserably in the pursuit of your dreams, you'll never make it.

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Life has ups and it has downs. I don't care who you are.

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Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It's like the ultimate rest. It's better than the best sleep you've ever had. It's a quieting of the mind. It sharpens everything, especially your appreciation of your surroundings. It keeps life fresh.

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Nobody suddenly discovers anything. Thing are made slowly and in pain.

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There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or the misfortunes in your life. You can't go through life obsessing about what might have been.

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If you never fall in love with your character, you'll never be able to do that character justice. No matter who it is, no matter what the character does, you have to find the reason for it. Everyone's got a reason for what they do, even if it's a reason that they're not proud of.

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We can live tough lives, but the human spirit is stronger, seemingly, than anything. There is redemption, hope, and love. All different forms of heartbreak, but beyond all that there is hope, there is love. There is beauty and bliss.

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To me, the smell of fresh-made coffee is one of the greatest inventions.

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What I respect as far as in myself and in others is the spirit of just doing it. For better or worse, it may work and it may not, but I'm going to go for it. Ultimately I probably prefer to be respected for that than whether it works out or not, either winning or losing.

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The definition of being good is being able to make it look easy.

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If you put Buddha, Jesus Christ, Socrates, Shakespeare, Arjuna, Krishna at a dinner table together, I can't see them having an argument.

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We have far more ability than we give ourselves credit for.

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Anyone who thinks they're indispensible is fooling themselves.

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With age, you see people fail more. You see yourself fail more. How do you keep that fearlessness of a kid? You keep going. Luckily, I'm not afraid to make a fool of myself.

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age kids people

Look, my philosophy in life is expect nothing and everything is a bonus.

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I find that kid actors are great reminders of the simplicity of acting. As you get older, you can sometimes complicate things a little more. You can become too aware of, 'Okay, this is the scene emotionally. This is where we need to be. We've got the climax coming up.' You can start to analyze it too much.

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simplicity acting kids

When your dreams becoming reality, they're no longer your dreams.

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