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You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.
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Utopia means elsewhere.
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I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity.
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I am inspired by the appearance of a bohemian of the new millennium. I thought it was necessary to update the figure of the bohemian, but not in the traditional way.
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People always say life is short. I've never been convinced of that - mine seems to have a tendency to go on and on.
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I mean, anything that money can be made off will never be a problem to make, no matter what it is.
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If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.
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Actors generally get to do things you probably shouldn't do in real life - well, at least as much as one might like to or be tempted to. Though I suppose a lot of actors just go ahead and do it, don't they?
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I don't really go through a process, it goes through me.
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Even if you do succeed most people wouldn't notice anyway.
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Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do it. And I studied it in school and I always liked it.
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I don't throw things or yell.
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I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid.
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It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others.
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If you're too smart it can limit you because you spend so much time thinking that you don't do anything.
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I'm a little bit of a fabric lunatic.
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It never occurred to me to be an actor.
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I think with actors, if you just don't set about trying to crush their confidence immediately, you're usually OK.
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I can see how, given a certain degree of sensitivities, proclivities and rage, I could have ended up differently.
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My life before children I don't really remember. I've heard references to it, but I really don't remember.
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I find it hard to pre-plan every element of everything I do. It's not my thing.
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Where women are concerned, the rule is never to go out with anyone better dressed than you.
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Most of the women that I like have a haunted quality - they're sort of like women who live in a haunted house all by themselves.
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I'm not a very skeptical person.
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