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I'm frustrated when I see movies in which I feel like the plot is being told to me instead of shown to me.

I've aways been good at picking up certain things, like sports and dancing.

I've never been sent a lock of hair or anything like that, but I've gotten underwear with my face on it. That was weird.

I wanted to be able to tell my grandkids one day, "Hey, your grandpa ran into a burning building and survived."

I would love to sing. I would love to do a musical, but I wouldn't say that that singing is my strong suit.

Emmerich knows how to do "big", but the trick is in making it (movies) both big and fun.

I like to be lean. If I get too bulky I can't move well and I like to move. When I'm not training, I get really round and soft.

I do generally all my stuff [stunts] except for motorcycles and cars, that stuff I don't know how to do as well as certain people do.

In all the movies I'm in love with someone in my head. There's always love in a film somewhere. It doesn't matter even if it's an action movie.

It comes down to the experience of it. The more you fight, the more you know, the more you can use in the ring.

I had a bad stutter when I was really young. I couldn't get a sentence out. Like, 'D-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-ad.' And that turned into a mumble.

I went hunting, I shot a deer, and it mortified me. I just couldn't do it again.

I'm thankful for weird people out there 'cause they're some of the most creative people.

American audiences love period pieces. America doesn't have a lot of old things. It's a new country so I think we're a little bit fascinated by that.

I don't ever get the great looking lawyer roles because I've got a thick neck from playing football.

Waxing was an interesting experience. Not quite as painful as I expected.

I had an all right high school, even though I hated school. I wasn't massively popular, but I was okay. But I wouldn't want to do it again.

My bar for being successful is being able to do movies that really mean something to me and being able to make a living off of that.

If I want to do action, you don't really get to do it. They don't let you, there's too much on the line to let you jump out of a building.

I've always had way too much energy so I'm always looking for new things to do to channel that energy.

I'm not a fighter. I'm not a tough guy at all. I walk away from fights.

When you adapt a book to a film, you take all the best parts and put them into an hour and 15 minutes and have to compromise on the characters.

Actually I have a tradition that I always steal my last costume on the last day of filming.

Someone who doesn't take herself too seriously and can be a goofball. Because everyone's a nerd inside, I don't care how cool you are.

I've always said that movies are a direct mirror of the director.

I believe Obama is a lot of fun when he's not trying to keep our economy together.

I do get nervous to act, it kind of depends on what it is really.

That's something I do, like, all the time. I just do backflips off things.

No one's calling me for lawyer roles. I still have a lot to do to prove myself.

I think some of the scariest people I've met in my life have been some of the sweetest.

The more you try to look sexy, the lamer it is, so you just have to commit to the comedy.

Someday you'll miss her like she missed you. Someday you'll need her like she needed you. Someday you'll love her and she won't love you.

Channing does a very good impersonation of men at female strip joints.

My wife always hates when I go, 'I just don't love female action movies.' I don't know why. I'll watch them, but I don't run to go and see them.

I don't know what you're going through life doing if you're not really trying to collect some really great memories.

Modeling was successful for me. I didn't have to wait tables or anything like that, so that was nice. And I got to see the entire world.

I've always negotiated the world very physically, from football to tussling at the playground to taking my clothes off.

Whatever the fighting is - boxing, fighting, Judo, Thai boxing, it's how much you know doing that. Some people just know how some people move.

You have the dreams that you want, and then you have to do other jobs until you can get to that dream.

I really like doing action. It's one of those things where I negotiate the world physically, I think, more than mentally. I enjoy running and jumping.

'Jump Street,' I knew we had a great time. It didn't matter, didn't know if it was going to do well.

I have a theory that as nice and sweet as you can be equates to how dangerous you can be.

I learned to appreciate repetition. That's why I can dance. It's how I learned to act. I have a high tolerance for repetition.

I've said that movies are the highest stakes make-believe game in the world, and this is truly the most highest stakes.

My mother taught me how to love. My mom is the most loving person I know.

Fighting for men back then, I think, was just more a way of life, especially if you were a soldier obviously.

I think people when they think of comedic actors they forget that they are people with a point of view and experiences and depth.

Girls were always my biggest distraction in school.

I grew up in Florida, where if you weren't comfortable dancing, you weren't going to get any girls.

I'm not political. I just want America to do well, I want the world to do well. I want everyone to stop fighting.

I don't know if I'm very complicated at all. I wish I was. I wish I was one of these deep, intricate people. But I just love having fun really.

If my Dad doesn't like you, you will know. My Mom is just too innocent to ever lie. She doesn't even cuss.

There's only a few directors that can do what Emmerich does on an international scale and on an action scale.

There are so many dramatic actors where I would give all of my anything to have their careers, but I don't think I can try to follow anyone.

There is a lot of underground type of fighting going on and some of it is not safe, it's pretty brutal. But it's absolutely fascinating.

I get one shot at life, and I can say that I've lived a crazy one, and I've pushed the limit almost at every turn, and I'm super proud of that.

I have the flying dream a lot where I'm jumping off a building and just flying around.

Getting hurt and narrowly escaping death is sort of a thing for me.

I went down to Miami, and somebody saw me on the streets, and that's how I got into modeling.

I lived crazy really young. So now I don't need to go out and get nuts.

I did 'The Vow' because I really love being in love.

I auditioned for a Pepsi commercial, and I got it, and that was incredibly fun. So I thought, Well, maybe I should try this acting thing .

I had people in my life who were insane and negative, but they taught me how not to be, how I didn't want to end up.

Any teen gets into a little trouble here and there. It's not hard to find trouble when you're looking for it as a kid.

I used to work at a puppy nursery.

I grew up watching 'Braveheart' and 'Gladiator.' Those are my 'Star Wars.' They have values and traits about them that I wish I had.

Life is too short to miss out on the beautiful things like a double cheeseburger.

I write, but I don't write poetry. I don't rhyme or anything like that.

A well arranged scrapbook, filled with choice selections, is a most excellent companion for anyone who has the least literary taste.

My parents let me find my way and that's how they supported me the entire way.

Yeah, and I recently had my first Elvis moment. A gang of young girls was jumping all over me. It was kinda scary. And totally flattering.

But I'm not a tough guy or a street fighter for real. I'm just an actor.