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• ‟ I listen to a lot of Chicago blues, I suppose. It reminds me of growing up, I guess. But I'm also obsessed by close-harmony groups. Actually, I'm fascinated particularly by brother duos, how they blend together. The Everly Brothers, the Stanley Brothers, The McQuarrys. There's something inherently magical about harmony.

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• ‟ I know I'm not some matinee idol, but I think we're sold this bill of goods by the media, which says that only the most beautiful and dashing people can become movie stars. So when someone like me sneaks in, they have to redo the calculations.

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• ‟ Being unprepared makes me nervous. I'm old-fashioned show folk.

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• ‟ Why people pick me for the roles that they do is a bit of a mystery.

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• ‟ I try to take things that challenge me either physically or mentally, or I have to learn a new skill.

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• ‟ One of the reasons people find me a believable actor is that I don't seem like one of the gods from Olympus. I seem like someone who was lucky enough to be let into Olympus.

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• ‟ To me, it doesn't make any sense to pick your work based on the size of the budget of the movie.

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• ‟ If people want to see me in comedies, that's fine with me.

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• ‟ I just like surprising people. I never want to get to a place where people see that I am in a movie and they go see the movie and they expect a certain performance one way or the other. That is just inherently boring to me.

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