I studied Tom Cruise running in all the Mission Impossibles. I think he's one of the best screen runners.

I don't play hockey at all. I'm not comfortable on skates.

I don't have a burning desire to be taken seriously as an actor. I don't have a master plan in that way.

I was a bad student. I liked archaeology actually, I was interested in maybe becoming an archaeologist but I was such a bad student and had such bad grades that I wasn't going to get into any really good college so I fell back on acting.

Well, this movie I've been working on for a while. I had the idea for the movie like twenty years ago when I was doing 'Empire of the Sun' in 1987 because at that time that's when all these Vietnam movies were being made and my friends and I were going on auditions for these Vietnam movies and my friends were getting them and going away to fake boot camps.

I'm always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.

Zoolander was more of my own sensibility.