I want to keep working with the best, keep going and be a better actor each time I go and dive into something.

Put paying your dues and all that puts so much into being a success. You have an understanding of what its about, being on your own for three or four years and living day to day on $3, or living in an apartment with no electricity.

I would do 'John Carter' again tomorrow. I'm very proud of 'John Carter.' Box office doesn't validate me as a person, or as an actor.

I have like 20 snap-up shirts in my closet, and I never, never would have thought before FNL would I have had that.

I don't do the L.A. scene. I stay focused and very myopic. I don't feel I need to prove myself or be in people's faces, especially in this town.

I'm never going to be like, "Oh, this attention from women sucks." It's flattering 99 percent of the time.

And those Texas sunsets... I work a lot in Africa: Texas and Africa have the best sunsets on the planet, that I've ever seen.