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Being unemployed is not good for an actor. No, it isn't, no matter how unsuccessful you are. Because you always remember getting fired from all the restaurants. You remember that stuff very, very strongly.
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Actors are responsible to the people we play.
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Sometimes I have a great day of filming and sometimes the theater strikes me better. It just depends.
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When you have a child, as anyone knows who has them, that's basically all you want to talk about.
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I think I'm less anonymous than I was.
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I don't get nervous when I'm directing a play. It's not like acting.
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I know I wasn't as handsome as some other guys, but I was OK with that.
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Sometimes I'm uncomfortable with the level of fame I've got! It all depends on the day and what's going on. I don't desire any more fame. I don't need it.
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There are a lot of things going on with my life right now that don't just have to do with career. So I have a hard time making decisions about work. That's really a luxury problem.
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In life, do you ever really know if you're missing an opportunity? No, you really don't.
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One person's religion is another person's cult.
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When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.
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There's nothing risky in talking about your personal life. People do it all the time.
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People actually live with their id exposed. They're not good at concealing what's going on inside.
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Actors are investigators.
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When people don't know who you are, they're seeing your work for the first time. But if they've seen a lot, getting certain things across is a more difficult.
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The size of my head though is pretty abnormal.
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There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real life. They exist to play out a scenario. They can be in fantastic films, but they are not real characters; what happens to them is not lifelike.
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People aren't going to throw the kind of money at certain people that they used to.
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You can look at anything as a cult. Churches are cults in their own way.
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The drama nerd comes out in me when I'm in a theater.
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The foibles of my body are pretty much out there in the work I do.
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The weight comes off, you know? If you stop with the bread and the pie, it really does. It really works.
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I think you ultimately have to love who you're playing. You have to have that kind of feeling. You have to have passion for the person.
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