Personal Contrast Quotes

I'm not a dark person at all, so those roles are the most challenging. I don't think I'm necessarily drawn to dark things. It just seems to work out that way.

I'm like two different people. The way I sing comes from the music I listened to when I was younger, from black American R&B singers. My speaking voice is something else. It's what my mum and dad taught me.

If I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He's everything that I'm not.

I talk a lot about strength, faith and love, but I don't ever talk about the fact that I am one of the most sensitive people in my family. That might be the most shocking, because you always see me fighting the good fight, with the strong face on, but I am the most emotional.

Sookie is about as radically different from me and a lot of the work I've previously done as you could possibly come up with.

The genre I listen to the most is salsa, so people look at me and see this guy who's done mostly romantic ballads, but there's always been this other side.

I'm a lot girlier than the roles that I play. I joke with Tricia Helfer all the time that she's my muscle.

I really liked sports and athletic stuff, but I was a total nerd.

I am quite short, but that never comes across when I'm onstage in front of people. When I get offstage and greet an audience afterwards, their first reaction is to comment on my height because it seems like a very drastic difference.

At home, I'm not a rock star. I wear dad-appropriate attire. I drive a truck. And we go out to the mountains to light fires and have barbecues. Even then, The Killers are usually in the back of my mind.

I am very sentimental, very emotional, but never in my writing; I am very tough.

Off-camera, I sound like Perry Como.

I like 'The Simpsons' like everybody else. But yeah - people think I'll always be super intense.

I'm shy, but sometimes my voice is so clear and strong. Your tongue moves, and the Arabic language is so beautiful.

I'm much nicer in person than on Twitter.

I'm a pretty intense person at the racetrack, but when I'm not thinking about my race car or in the garage doing my job, I'm pretty laid back, and I like to be organized and do normal things.

In my daily life, I tend to be very literal and unsuperstitious. But music gives me an outlet to be very emotional.

For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different from him. I think I have always personally followed a direction opposed to that of the symbolism of Debussy.

In real life, I'm very different from Sarah Dunn. She's from the North. I grew up in the South. I wear big hoop earrings. I love me some makeup, and that's not her at all.

I think I've been good at getting into lonely and troubled characters because, not to brag, but I'm the complete opposite in real life.

It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest.

I'm actually one of the sharper tools in the box that haven't been in the streets like that, but I have family members, close loved ones, that that's all they know.

I would like to do something dark or small. I love independent films. I love emotional scenes. I love people who are struggling with something. I think it's just the juxtaposition to my incredibly happy, positive demeanor.

I think I give the impression of being a romantic, and I think inside I'm quite severe. But some might say they had the opposite impression of me.

It occurred to me then that I was the opposite of my father. Because I was very, very good at destroying things.