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A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear.
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I was always - maybe stupidly so - very confident.
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I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar.
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I grow up in the States, in Miami, but I was born in Guatemala, and my father's Cuban, and in 'Body of Lies,' I played an Iraqi.
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Humans are mutants, everything's a mutant - things that evolve.
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Cats are impossible to work with. They're just very difficult because you can't really train them. They're not really interested in whatever you want them to do. Dogs want to please you; cats only want to please themselves.
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Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it.
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When I came up to New York to do a play, I passed by Julliard, and I was like, 'Oh I heard of this place.' I applied, and ended up getting in.
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Max Minghella is a very close friend of mine, and I talk to him regularly.
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I always joked with my parents. I told them, 'If I don't make it as an actor, my fallback is musician.'
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I wouldn't mind seeing The Smiths reform. That would be cool.
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I guess 'Scarface' was the Cuban Al Pacino.
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The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other people.
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My dad was a doctor, but he was just always, like, going from hospital to hospital for some reason.
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It's nice to create a character, not just within two scenes, but within the journey of a whole movie. It's fun to do that.
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I've never been much of a guitarist. I mean, I've played forever, but I was always more of a rhythm kind of guy. I don't read music.
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I've never been interested in celebrity.
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Our morality is based on so many factors: of where we were born, who we were born to, what values were instilled in us, what values we chose, the way that our lives have shaped us. That dictates so much of what we assume is our morality, and also the culture, all of these things.
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When I moved to New York, I had to let my band know that I couldn't play anymore, and that was difficult to leave that behind.
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I think romantic passion is wanting a little something in return.
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Getting a record deal is a meaningless thing now.
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If you can find a way that your principles are actually the strategically smartest thing to do, you've kind of figured it out.
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I was never much of a singer. I was terrible. It's embarrassing: I was trying to sound like everybody else. I went through a big Cure phase, so I was trying to do that kind of dramatic voice.
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I feel like being an artist and being an activist are separate things; I know some people who feel very differently.
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