My bar for being successful is being able to do movies that really mean something to me and being able to make a living off of that.

I grew up in Florida, where if you weren't comfortable dancing, you weren't going to get any girls.

I'm frustrated when I see movies in which I feel like the plot is being told to me instead of shown to me.

Actually I have a tradition that I always steal my last costume on the last day of filming.

You don't try any less hard on the ones that don't. I've gotten lucky to work with some amazingly talented people that have helped the ones that have worked work. I think you just have to keep doing the stories you love and the characters that you love and are drawn to.

I can't do the same movies all my life. I'm conscious of that. But it's a trade-off. 'Dear John' allowed me to do movies I've wanted to do. You learn to balance it out. I'm still learning. Only now am I getting to do the kinds of movies that I have wanted to do. So it's a steady climb. You don't jump into a Soderbergh film.

I know I will never wear sandals now anywhere. I got in a fight in the back of a grocery store when I was really young, like 14 or something. And I remember my feet were so torn up afterwards because I lost my sandals in the middle of the fight. My toenail was missing. It just sucked.