Phrases

01. Relationships, if you want them to work, take work. The biggest thing that I learned growing up, and even now, is if it’s right, it’s worth it. It’s just a matter of finding that person you want to be with.

02. Everybody’s got regrets. It’s a personal choice as to whether or not you can change.

03. I’m not a completely closed book; I’m a social person and if I see something worth sharing, I’m happy to do that.

04. Everybody’s got regrets. Everybody’s made mistakes. Nobody’s perfect.

05. I made a conscious effort that I just wanted to work with people that were going to make me better and that was the main thing – writers, directors, in whatever medium.

06. I feel sexiest when I can make you laugh.

07. My wife and I like to go to church if we’re in town. On Sundays, I try to be as chill as I can, whether I’m watching golf or barbecuing.

08. My mother was a P.E. teacher, and she was kind of a fanatic about fitness and nutrition growing up, so it was ingrained in me at a young age. As I get older, I’m finding out it’s not about getting all buffed up and looking good. It’s more about staying healthy and flexible.

09. It’s all about whatever enriches you. If you decide to go the domestic route and get married and all those things, it makes you a better actor.

10. Nobody wants to know what I’m doing 24 hours a day, they’d be painfully bored, trust me. At the same time, if I’m doing something interesting or funny, I like being able to share that with my fans.

11. When I first started [taking acting classes] I sort of stuck my toes in but I was so nervous I didn’t know if I could go all the way. I was so scared about it for some reason. The more confident I got with it, the more I just fell in love with it. I love going to work every day and trying to make the most of the stuff I’ve been given.

12. I’ve teamed up with PetSmart Charities to celebrate the five million homeless pets who’ve found homes through their in-store adoption centers, and to spread the word about how we can work together to save millions more pets’ lives and, ultimately, end pet homelessness.

13. I grew up like Huck Finn, always outdoors, exploring, collecting frogs – there was space everywhere. I want my kids to experience that too. I love being outside.

14. I love football and beer and have a normal girlfriend.

15. I really feel like a regular dude who happens to be incredibly lucky.

16. I’m a glutton for coffee Heath Bar crunch ice cream.

17. I want to do good work, but having kids and a life outside of that is important, too. If you don’t have anybody around who loves you, then what’s it all for? You’re just lonely in the end.

18. You have to be a pretty miserable person to not enjoy making movies. It’s something I always dreamed about. I do not take it for granted.

19. The thing I can say about all this stuff that’s going on right now is that I appreciate it.

20. I’ve always wanted to be a dad. I just can’t wait to have a little rug rat running around. I used to want five or six kids, but maybe I’ve become too self-absorbed over the years. I think two would be perfect.

21. There’s a tendency to fall into certain habits, but if you tell yourself not to do that and if you don’t stay there too long – I think if you start staying for too long, you tend to fall into certain bad habits, and I tried not to do that.

22. Adopted pets are the best pets you can have. Most adoptable pets come from loving homes that simply cannot care for them anymore. Or, they are strays who’ve been on their own without the loving care they deserve.

23. I’m working on inventing an aerosol spray that repels papparazi. I haven’t perfected it but when I do I will make millions.

24. I don’t know who came up with this push present idea, but I think it’s probably a female.

25. Finally, you get the job, and you think you’ll be dancing on the ceiling, but I just wanted to go take a nap. It was just like a weight had been lifted off or something.

26. I think it’s almost better to start [acting] at a later age because you have more stuff to drawm from – more life experience. When you start too young, you grow up on a set.

27. I’m sort of an old man, always tinkering in the backyard. Since I grew up playing outdoors, I still like to plant things, sit out on the deck, or go hiking.

28. They tell you that at his age, all they do is eat, sleep, and poop. And what I’ve learned is they can actually do all three at the same time. Who knew?

29. I think Paul Newman had an amazing career. I also love what Tom Hanks has done. He has always made very grounded movies that have something to say. He has found a way to make blockbusters that are about something and that is what I want to do.

30. At one point that’s all I cared about, being a pro athlete. But I realized I wasn’t athletic enough.

31. When I was on ‘All My Children,’ we did a thing for ‘Seventeen Magazine’ where a girl won a date. I went to her prom with her in Alabama, and she was a sweetheart. I didn’t move to Alabama and I didn’t buy a farm there, but we still keep in touch.

32. When I first started, I wasn’t really into movies that much unless it was an action-packed gunslinger with naked women here and there.

33. Fergie will sing ballads to the dogs and they’ll sit there rapt. You know your wife’s a star when she keeps the dogs entertained for 20 minutes.

34. My parents are divorced, and that was the last thing I wanted for myself. I waited until I was 36 to propose, and I’m really proud of that.

35. Soap operas are such a great way to break-in to the industry. The diminishing landscape of daytime TV means its going to be harder for young talent to get discovered.