When I met David Green at film school he always used to offer free haircuts - he was kind of an artisan. In a lot of our films, he's constantly trying to give me weird looks.

Confidence and a good sense of humor can usually win a chick over.

You know, a lot of those angry sort of Southern man characters that I've been doing are based on different people I might've had as, like, a soccer coach or as a teacher.

In my school, people liked the gym teachers because they were the football or soccer coaches. But look, if they're cool, they get respect.

Man, I'm just into Buddhism, and I'm at peace with the fact that me, as this person, probably gonna not be around. Think about a hermit crab, okay? And it's a shell. It's like, they go from one shell to the next. And that's what I am. I'm just a hermit crab changin' shells.

On a human level, people want to see someone succeed who wants to change.

As an actor, you don't want to be typecast, because Hollywood is so quick to put you in things that you've succeeded in before.