What's funny is that male strippers don't wear thongs anymore. They wear flat backs.

I think you can be athletic and intellectual at the same time.

I got to L.A. in 2000, when we were coming off the '90s: women looked like men and the men all looked like women.

I come from classical theater training and when I went to college it was a bunch of kids that were hand-picked from around the world. I was around such brilliant young minds and incredible artists with incredible teachers.

Once you become famous, being single becomes a liability.

So listen, man, "weird" is my middle name. I'm ready for anything. The weirder, the better.

I think when portraying someone that does exist in real life, there's an amount of respect and you want to do them justice. I don't really care what anybody says out there about what I did in the film; I care what these guys thought about what I did. If I'm making them happy, then I know I'm on the right track.