The male is always the pawn in a romantic comedy. Come together, break up, go chase her, get her, roll credits. That’s what happens in all of them.
You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now.
I go on The Daily Beast. The Daily Beast is one of the websites that I check out.
Starting at about, I guess, forever, I’ve always looked forward to getting older. When I was 14, I couldn’t wait to be 16 and get a driver’s license.
For me, one of the toughest things about Valentine’s Day is that it gets geared up as the day to profess your love. See, T-E-S-T – that’s a bad word that doesn’t go with L-O-V-E.
One of the great pleasures of going to see a Daniel Day-Lewis film: you haven’t seen him in five years. Where have you been? So, it’s a special event, right? Well, if you want to go see a movie that I’m in, it still may be a special event for you, but, you don’t feel like you don’t know where I’ve been.
When someone bestows something on you, no matter how true it is, when someone says, ‘Sexiest Man Alive,’ I’m honestly going, ‘Thank you. Right on.’ For me, it’s never canceled out anything, it’s never made me go, ‘Does this make me less talented of an actor?’
I don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.
There are certain nights you and your image just aren’t in the same bed.
Africa is probably one of the most beautiful places I have ever been.
My number one thing? Don’t overleverage yourself. Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.
The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.
In whatever adulation you get, there’s truth and there’s not truth. And wherever they dog you, and they say it was horrible – there’s truth and there’s not truth. It’s human nature to like to read the adulation more.
