I think you can be athletic and intellectual at the same time.
I started working at clubs when I was sixteen, which is young. I would not want my kid doing that, but I did, and that's how it went.
I screen tested for Training Day many years ago, which was David Ayer's script with Antoine Fuqua directing.
I play characters who are comfortable naked, but that's something you work up to. I did a play off-Broadway in New York when I was in college. It was full-frontal nudity. It's nerve-racking.
I mean, I feel like I've been pretending I was a werewolf since I was a little kid.
I mean, everyone walks into the gym on day one skinny or fat. Arnold Schwarzenegger walked into the gym skinny at 15 or 16, and I was that way, too.
I mean 'One Tree Hill' had some rabid fans - you'd be surprised - they're almost in a class of their own.
I love walking around and grabbing coffee and sitting in a park and people watching… I love Greenwich Village.
I had a fan make me a silver wolf-tooth necklace. That was really great.
I grew up a misfit. I never fit in.
I grew up a big comic book reader, as a kid, and I love the whole fanboy crowd.
I got to L.A. in 2000, when we were coming off the '90s: women looked like men and the men all looked like women.
I don’t think there’s any such thing as male objectification
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I am kind of giant … on (the True Blood) set.
Doing theater is like walking a tightrope without a net.
American comedies especially are all about these men being browbeaten by their wives and it's impossible for me to watch.
Also, to be honest, my dad wanted me to be an athlete. And I think all sons want to prove something to their dad. So now, aged 35, I want to see what I can achieve physically.
Acting was the only place that I ever felt like I belonged so went for it with everything I had.
Acting was my first love.
David Ayer was put on my map, at that point, and I always kept note and clocked his career. When he started directing, I saw Harsh Times, I saw Street Kings and I saw End of Watch. I gave my agents a list of directors that I wanted to work with, and at the top of that list was David. I wanted to have that experience.
Every weekend the drama department would have parties. The 20 hot girls on campus? All of them were in the drama dept. So we'd have somebody standing guard at the door to keep all the computer science guys out. We had to guard our women at all times.
I actually met Carrie Fisher a couple of years ago. When I told her that she was my first crush, she insisted that we get married and have a reality show about it. I'm lucky to have made it out of that weekend without getting married.
I come from classical theater training and when I went to college it was a bunch of kids that were hand-picked from around the world. I was around such brilliant young minds and incredible artists with incredible teachers.
I quit because that thing inside of me that was driving me to drink that way was causing me so much pain that I was starting to get afraid for my own life, and my own health. It wasn't necessarily one instance. It was a lot that had piled up.
I think when portraying someone that does exist in real life, there's an amount of respect and you want to do them justice. I don't really care what anybody says out there about what I did in the film; I care what these guys thought about what I did. If I'm making them happy, then I know I'm on the right track.
