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'm an average guy. I wasn't the dude who was gonna sit at the stage and dump all my paycheck into the girl.
[ Being naked on scene ] was like walking a tightrope without a net - with a giant fan blowing at you.
Well, if I hadn't have been an actor I would have gone on to play college sports.
Acting was my first love.
I don’t think there’s any such thing as male objectification
I train like a pro-athlete, not like an actor who's just trying to look pretty.
Acting was the only place that I ever felt like I belonged so went for it with everything I had.
I've always been an athletic guy, but the extent to which I go for 'True Blood' or for 'Magic Mike' is because of the role that I'm playing.
I love walking around and grabbing coffee and sitting in a park and people watching… I love Greenwich Village.
I did [Henrik] Ibsen and [Anton] Chekhov for years. Obviously I didn't get the kind of recognition I have now. Somebody once told me, "You ride the horse the direction it's going."
I screen tested for Training Day many years ago, which was David Ayer's script with Antoine Fuqua directing.
I went to a school that's predominantly computer science and engineering. So, there's a real shortage of hot girls, let's say.
The reason I couldn't pay my rent was because I was one of the worst drinkers you'd ever seen in your life.
There are these little towns outside of L.A. Once you get an hour and a half, two hours out, you get into these little, tiny towns that are almost like stuck in time.
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'm an actor that cares.
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.
I wanted to work with somebody who seemed like he came from the same place that I did, which is that total immersion and learning about the world around, from this very gritty, dark side, and had access to that.
Once you become famous, being single becomes a liability.
So listen, man, "weird" is my middle name. I'm ready for anything. The weirder, the better.
Doing theater is like walking a tightrope without a net.
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.
I grew up a big comic book reader, as a kid, and I love the whole fanboy crowd.
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.
