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Dane DeHaan, certainly, is kind of the best friend I've made through acting, in terms of another actor. He's fantastic.

Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. They're my biggest heroes. I love everything about Leonard Cohen: his lyrics and his voice. He seems like a really clever man, and Bob Dylan does as well. He's just really cool.

I don't have many famous friends, really, except Simon Cowell.

I think that any actor - any artist, period - would love to work with an artist like Lee Daniels.

I like Simon Cowell - look at how many great artists have come out of the U.K. because of him.

There are so many young talented actors today whose work I respect and admire - Ryan Gosling is probably primary among them. I take inspiration from so many amazing actors.

I'm largely interested in people who are just great actors, and they're not necessarily hugely famous.

Sean Penn, for his acting as well as his writing and directing. There are so many actors I respect, but his reach is so wide.

I believe that Ryan Murphy is a genius. His instincts remind me of Andy Warhol. I recently went to the Warhol museum in Pittsburgh, and you can see a lot of echoes of Andy in Ryan's work. Like Andy, Ryan's finger is so on the pulse of culture that he's ahead of culture. Their aesthetic and their vision of the world are very similar.