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One thing that's thematically consistent in 'Sin City' is that all the performances seem to be of the same genre, like we're singing the same song.
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We're in the business of making films, not striking or anything else.
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There are more heroes than cops, FBI agents, and lawyers.
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We have real cliched ideas of what prison life is like. It is not a happy place. It's a desperate, sad situation.
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The office of the presidency is what's important, no matter who's in it.
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We all want to pretend that there isn't evil in the world. We all want to pretend that there aren't people trying to take us out and different things like that.
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I like to do things that are about relationships, work with quality people, and tell a different kind of story.
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Any of us can sort of say we would do any number of things to feed our children.
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Since I've had some success, story and character are always the two elements I think about first in material presented to me. Some of my choices have been more successful than others.
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I'm not going to make my living out of beating my head against somebody else.
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I think I'm pretty politically informed, and I find myself watching Senate hearings on C-SPAN.
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I've got a family, and I love them, and I want them to have the best opportunities in the best country in the world, and I think we have to fight for it.
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The first 10 years I was a professional actor, I did Shakespeare.
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I got a lot of flak; in Texas, football is not only the social thing you must do, but you do it also to prove your manhood. They all couldn't conceive of why I'd want to stop to do 'The Importance of Being Earnest.'
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I've always wanted to play a hard-boiled gumshoe, as they say.
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I'm really enjoying the character now, but I don't want to just be Philip Marlowe. I wouldn't mind playing him every couple of years, perhaps, as a kind of open franchise - you know?
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Some stars can make five or six failures in a row and continue to work - with a raise. I can't figure how that works. Maybe foreign sales or a smart agent.
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Actors have far fewer choices than the public thinks they do.
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