I don’t think there’s any such thing as male objectification…I think that word exists only with women because there are societal pressures for them to behave a certain way and to look a certain way. Someone put it to me once: Women are sex objects and men are success objects. That was really interesting to me.

I'm an average guy. I wasn't the dude who was gonna sit at the stage and dump all my paycheck into the girl.

The best love advice I've ever received is probably, 'I'm not leaving the relationship; I'm just leaving the house.'

I wanted to work with somebody who seemed like he came from the same place that I did, which is that total immersion and learning about the world around, from this very gritty, dark side, and had access to that.

I wake up at the same time every day to get to the gym.

I did [Henrik] Ibsen and [Anton] Chekhov for years. Obviously I didn't get the kind of recognition I have now. Somebody once told me, "You ride the horse the direction it's going."

When I first got out of drama school, my original manager tried to get me to change my name because people were having trouble spelling it and saying it.