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I certainly have played a lot of strong characters, and I love playing a strong character.

I guess actors don't like to direct each other.

It can be easy and comfortable on the set and you don't go anywhere, or it can be a stress machine and all of a sudden it's a hit.

It was fun shooting with Josh [Holloway], not just how great he is, but just how handsome he is.

Shia [LaBeouf] was great. He's just high energy. He's into really playing, and I had to be on my toes in a way that I wasn't necessarily expecting.

I was a greasy short-order cook. I just liked being greasy! That was a real departure for me.

Steve Zaillian is just the sweetest. A very, very wonderful and interesting director.

I think I've been able to be in some really good projects with some really good people.

Maybe I'm just lucky I'm not working with any assholes ... yet.

Sports and politics are basically all I really care about or talk about.

Intimidation is 99 percent in the intimidatee's head.

I'm frankly shocked that Hollywood hasn't called me to do a superhero.

Being able to play a role where you're there almost every day and you're just in it ... I remember it was a whirlwind, but it was a lot of fun.

If it's a good role, I'm happy to play it.

Of course, on every job there are moments where you're not having fun.

Everybody else, they're wonderful, but [Robert] Duvall sets the tone for all of cinema acting. So just to be in his space was amazing.

I don't usually get to play somebody who is, at least, nominally in charge. I'm usually playing somebody's lawyer or a doctor.

When you're on a show for five years, everyone becomes friends. It's great.

I sat next to Robert Duvall at the lawyers' table for six weeks, and it's still probably the best six weeks of my life.

I always enjoy being the obvious homunculus of the pair.

Every actor wants to know in different ways. Some like to know everything. Some don't want to know anything. I think I land somewhere in the middle.

I think if I learned anything in graduate school, it was to not drool around other actors who would normally make you drool.

When you're not gaping at Megan Fox enough to listen to what the director's saying, you can get some work done.

I've never done real sci-fi. I've never played an alien. I've never played some sort of superhero. Which I'd love to do!

Anything government or politics is always exciting for me.

I always loved doing productions in school. In college, I started getting a little more serious.

I'm a huge, huge sports fan. A massive sports fan.

My first film role was a reporter. It's funny, because my father was a news reporter. I always thought there was something strange about that.

Why things get canceled or not is so unbelievably out of actors' hands that it's one of those things where you've just got to ride with it.

I'm always an agent or a lawyer or a doctor or a banker. I'm always wearing a tie.

Every actor wants to do more, because you always think you can improve it.