I found out that smoking is the leading cause of statistics.
I looked like a 'Super Mario Bros.' Goomba. It's arguably the ugliest haircut on the planet.
My best advice to actors is if you love acting, do it every chance you get. Success does not mean success. All that matters is whether or not you're doing your best to entertain. The way this business works is all about luck and timing.
I thank every bully I ever had because that's the only reason I'm here. I learned how to not be affected by it and triumph over it, and that made me - again, if I had any success whatsoever, it's because these people made fun of me.
Literally, my first audition after 'The Life Aquatic' was for the 'Criminal Minds' pilot.
I'm happy every day that I get up and I'm alive.
The nature of storytelling, since the dawn of man, has a beginning, a middle, and an end.
My parents instilled a very strong work ethic in me from a young age, fortunately.
If you just do a Google search and type in 'smoking' or 'lung cancer', you will be barraged with never ending facts and numbers, like how one in every three Americans is affected by lung disease and how COPD is the third leading cause of death and if you get lung cancer the odds are 95% that you will die.
I'm very similar to the way I was when I was 5.
I remember a kid throwing an orange at the back of my head in Spanish class and calling me four-eyes, and I remember saying, I said, 'That's true, and I have two more eyes than you.' I felt like it was better. If I have four eyes, I'm twice as good as you.
I never imagined I would have one fan, and there seems to be a few. I just couldn't be happier that people seem to like what I'm doing and seem to respond to it. If they weren't there, I don't know what I'd be doing right now.
I think the key to directing a great music video is in making sure the song is great, and if it is, then it becomes really fun.
I get very little sleep. But I try to stay constantly busy. My fear is that if I stop working I'll, like, die. So throughout my life I've always tried to remain busy, and I sort of know no other way. I think if my heart rate slowed it would affect my constitution, strangely. I've been trained to do that.
I like to be in bed at 11, and I like to get 11 hours of sleep.
I love the holidays - any holiday - but Christmas has always been sort of special because I grew up reading Charles Dickens.
I've had this unbelievable amount of good fortune and I'm just so thankful for it. But at the same time I feel exceptionally guilty. I have so many friends who are talented graduates of Juilliard and are exceptional actors and I'm the lucky one that somehow got such a fortunate break.
My favourite actors have always been the character actors.
I studied directing prior to acting and I've done music videos and documentaries and things that were sort of well-received.
I've always had the utmost respect and awe of what the lens can do and what a director can do with just a camera move.
