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I met Robert Rodriguez working on a movie called 'Roadracers.'
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There's a lot of skeletons in my closet!
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Being a kid, as all kids do, you feel out of place or like kind of a freak. You wake up feeling like your head got put onto someone else's body that day.
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When I realized that you can't necessarily be cast in a really great part living in Austin, even when Hollywood comes to town, I got a demo reel together and headed out west.
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I don't really try to judge any character that I play, afterwards I figure it out, but while I'm working on the character, I have to find something in them to relate to.
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I don't have actor training myself.
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It's hard to get concert tickets.
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I understand why people achieve a level of fame and disappear, I never understood it before, but it's an attractive prospect to walk away from it all.
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I do all kinds of roles - nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho - and occasionally someone kind of normal. It's weird, when I lived in Austin I was always cast as pretty normal people. But when I moved to Los Angeles I was immediately branded a psycho.
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I don't think there are in life, pure darkness or pure light. Everyone's got a little of everything.
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I guess you can say that every actor is a 'character actor' on some level. But I think some actors have a wider range. I think that's how you get that mantle.
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I think we're all mysteries to ourselves.
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My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.
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When you're just starting out, and someone you think is a real storyteller says something good about you, that helps.
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People have said unkind things and you kind of have to, if you happen to read it, you have to just, you know, move on.
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You never really forget who you are. If you did, you'd need to seek some professional help.
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Some friends of mine bothered me for a long time about getting on the social networking pages. They were close friends that I liked to mess with, and I think that I kind of enjoyed for a while that it bothered them so much. Now they've just kind of given up.
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Hitchhiking was such a pure form of existence. You'd wake up in the morning, and you'd have no idea what your day was going to be. And that's something I've never been able to shake. I loved that.
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When something gets attention so quickly, people sometimes will look for reasons to find fault and tear it down.
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I don't mean to be highfalutin about it, but I try to limit my visibility.
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I want people to believe me when I play a part and they are less apt to if they know a lot about me and have associations about me.
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It's probably odd for someone to read an interview where the interviewee is worried about exposure while they're talking in an interview.
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You don't really ever think you're that crazy person you're playing.
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Even the small amount of infamy I have makes me uncomfortable - on a personal level and on a professional level.
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