I love the idea of real-life experiences finding their way into fiction. I think that's really cool.

I'm not going to allow myself to second-guess projects. I'm just going to do the ones that I fully love and believe in - that's a real privilege.

I'm hardly digging trenches for a living. I'm getting to tap into my boyhood fantasies of being a larger-than-life character.

I always kept myself fairly fit.

Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set.

The tricky thing becomes: Do you know yourself well enough to then portray that on screen? And for me, I find that really hard. I'd rather hide behind accents and funny walks.

I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me.

I often times find with movies that the heavier the onscreen situation is, the more levity there is off screen. It's almost out of necessity.

Everything is a learning process: any time you fall over, it's just teaching you to stand up the next time.

It's tricky. I've never been standing at the top of the tree with tons of money thrown at me. I've never really had a profile. So in a way I have this 'nothing to lose' attitude.

One of the things I've always enjoyed is moving around and staying fit. Physicality is such a big part of being an actor, but it's also about stillness and silence.

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

Having more exposure is kind of a bittersweet thing for me, honestly, because it's nice to have a little more job security in life now.

My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.

We still need to have one beautiful lady standing there.

When you're doing a show like 'The Book of Mormon,' you're completely spent by the time the show is over.

There's a big difference between me and a real, legitimate working hand, or a world-champion rodeo cowboy. I play 'em, and I aspire to be like that, but those guys are tough.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.

The biggest challenge is not the storytelling, it's to track every character's arc through the entire movie.

There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you're a kid.