I am one of those people who is not very patient in the makeup chair. I have been offered movies like 'Planet of the Apes' and stuff like 'The Grinch Who Stole Christmas' and I turned them down.

I would love to do a western. I would love to play an explorer. That is always something that has really captured my imagination since I was a kid, like James Cook or Magellan or Earnest Shackleton.

An actor's life is like a series of - it's like the first day of school happening over and over again.

People say, 'Don't you get tired of people coming up to you all the time?' But what's wrong with strangers saying they love you?

Being unprepared makes me nervous. I'm old-fashioned show folk.

I don't mind doing scripted material. It's actually kind of a relief, because improvising is a little bit like screenwriting on your feet.

I was never a very dependable employee for anything. Perfect for the actor's life!

The truth is that filmmaking is not really an actor's medium; it's really a director's medium, so all I can really control is the character that I'm playing. So I try to look for characters that are interesting and engaging and different than what I've done before and hopefully it becomes a good movie.

I was a founding member of the 'Dungeons and Dragons' club at my high school. I was in chorus, I was in swing choir. I was an outcast but I was an outcast among a group of outcasts.

My family are all storytellers, and I think I inherited a lot more of that gene than other people in my family. I guess I was fun to have around.

Once you become tagged as anything, it becomes difficult to shake it, because the less imaginative people in the business want you to do what worked for the last guy. That's always been something I've had to deal with.

There are a lot of actors in the world, there's a small number that actually get to work as actors, and there is a tiny group of actors that are celebrated in the way that I have been. I feel incredibly lucky.

You know, the truth is that us actors would all like to believe we re-invent the wheel, every time we play a character. But, we're human beings and our instruments are not violins, they are our bodies and our consciousness and our collective life experience.

To me, it doesn't make any sense to pick your work based on the size of the budget of the movie.

It's thought of as an eccentric thing for an actor to really try to maintain quality control through the whole career. Most people think, 'You just work. You just keep working.' And in some ways I wish I could be a guy who's just a workhorse.

Whenever I work on something, I try and throw everything I have at it. Then if the director finds it useful they use it, and if not, they ignore it!

Honestly, to tell you the truth, being trapped in any video game sounds like a living nightmare to me. In most video games, the point is it's a fight for survival, so I think it would be a terrifying place to live.

It's true that the skills required to be a conman are the same as those required for being an actor. Though those skills are in the service of something a bit more noble with acting, I hope.

I swear and it comes off a little angry, no matter how funny I'm trying to do it. If I use certain words with a certain intensity, it's like 'Whoa whoa whoa, buddy buddy!'

A lot of times, good improv is when both people, or however many people are in the scene, really have no idea what the next thing you're going to say is.

I'm a big fan of the 'Harry Potter' movies and 'The Lord of the Rings' films.

I really enjoy my time off. If I'm going to go to work, it has to be something I really believe in, or else it's totally tedious.

I love that people can't place me. They don't know my name. That's 'mission accomplished' in my world.

I kinda taught myself how to play guitar, and I still play to this day. It's become a pretty big part of my life.

One of the unique things is that whether we were out at sea or in the middle of the water tank, a lot of times you just couldn't leave. Especially when we were out at sea.

I like people who are able to keep pushing themselves and challenging themselves even after great success.

God forbid you got seasick because there was no option to go back. So that really did force us to be a group.

Oh, absolutely, it felt more serious than your typical job. One of the things that got us through how difficult the shooting actually was was that we are telling a real story.

One of the reasons people find me a believable actor is that I don't seem like one of the gods from Olympus. I seem like someone who was lucky enough to be let into Olympus.

When they're good, I like working with new actors.

Young people can be annoying, let's face it. But they can also be really refreshing to be around and full of enthusiasm.

Why people pick me for the roles that they do is a bit of a mystery.

A script is like a theory of a movie.

If people want to see me in comedies, that's fine with me.

I just like surprising people. I never want to get to a place where people see that I am in a movie and they go see the movie and they expect a certain performance one way or the other. That is just inherently boring to me.

I feel like a teenager myself, so I appreciate it when the kids think you're all right.

Acting's all about the confidence you exude, especially on film. I mean, nervousness isn't attractive in anyone, but a film camera will seek it out and punish you.

If you're really being honest with yourself when you're acting, part of it is touching the real you. You can only separate yourself so much from the character. Those vulnerable moments do touch me.

I would consider directing. I think directing myself would be tough, but I'm definitely interested in directing. I might start off directing a play before I move to a film.

Really if you look at my filmography, there's something for everyone!

Hollywood is an illusion. These intense workplaces, with very close relationships, a few months at a time - and then it ends.

Movies are this thing that came into my life, and it still feels pretend in some way. I kind of do this thing, and I never really accepted this idea that I'm a film actor. That's what I do. I feel like I'm a theater actor that started doing films. Most people have never seen me in a play. They're fun, though.

I actually envy actors who have a persona: 'This is the way I am. This is the part I play.' And do it over and over and over. To me, that's a lot easier than trying to reinvent yourself every six months.

There's so much joy in doing comedy work, and that's one of the reasons I like to do it - because it's just a hilarious day at work.