On acting

• "No matter the circumstances, no matter what's going on...the challenges, you still had to make it real.  Still had to hit the mark, still had to come up with the words.  Ya still had to be present.  No matter what was going on.  And I loved it."

With Tai Chi and 47 Ronin are you using your old Matrix skills or all new ones?

[Laughs] I had some wonderful training in the Matrix films so that gives me a bit of a foundation, but you know I’m older. I got older knees, so my older knees are standing on that foundation. But I have a good Kung Fu fight in Man of Tai Chi and in Ronin I get to do ( Read more... )

  "I do not choose roles on how big the part is or how much screen time I get. If it's someone I want to work with, I'll do it."

Regarding becoming an actor.

"Yeah, I felt lucky at the time because I remember we were going through school and the transition from grade school to high school and then from high school to college all my friends were trying to figure out what they wanted to be or how they wanted to get work, ya know? And I knew. 
I knew."

"I've never had that moment where I felt 'I don't want to [act] do this  anymore.'"

"There's a little bit of Donnie Barksdale in all us men. I found it quite primal,"

HAVE YOU SLEPT WITH MOST OF YOUR LEADING LADIES?
"Not at all, man. I'm practically a celibate monk -- it's true. I would actually most like to act with Eleanora Duse, who was a contemporary of Sarah Bernhardt. Those were two amazing women, and they represented a real dichotomy in acting styles. Sarah was very theatrical, melodramatic; Eleanora was ( Read more... )

Getting his part in Youngblood.

"I'm a pretty good goal tender so that was the easy part.  So I fought for it and got it.  S' cool."

"My first part was, uh, John Proctor in The Crucible and that was cool.  And then I did some Shakespeare and played Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet."

"I don't want to have to explain myself except through, ya know, the work."