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I think I'm lucky that I had kids as spread out as much as I did, 'cause my son, my oldest, was born when I was 21. And my youngest is 15 now. He was born when I was 40, you know?
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As a boy Id often spend my days biking on riverbeds and arroyos and come home exhausted. I realize now how much I took for granted having the natural world so close at hand. It wasnt until I moved away, first to New York and then to Los Angeles, that I realized how much I missed the outdoors.
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Repertory theater is all about being part of the whole, one of the many colors in this vast palette.
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An animatic is a process where every voice and every sound effect is added to rough animated drawings and it lasts exactly as long as the final movie. So you actually get to go into a screening room with the rest of the cast and you get to see it all at the same time.
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The reason most of us go to the movies is to be involved in someone else's moral dilemma.
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It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together ... and I knew it.
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There isn't any great mystery about me. What I do is glamorous and has an awful lot of white-hot attention placed on it. But the actual work requires the same discipline and passion as any job you love doing, be it as a very good pipe fitter or a highly creative artist.
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But the battles against loneliness that I fought when I was 16 are very different from those I fought when I was 27, and those are very different from the ones I fight at 44.
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As a young man, even if I was going to see a play or a film by myself, I didn't feel like I was alone. There was something that was unfolding up there that brought me into it. And I recognised that. For those two hours, it made me feel like I belonged to something really good.
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My work is really a blast. When it stops being a blast, then it ain't no fun no more!
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If I have no connection with the character, then it's all fake - it's just blah, blah, blah.
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If I stopped having passion, I'd be done.
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Believing is seeing and seeing is believing.
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For some people, I will be Forrest Gump for the rest of my life. But that's OK; that's a good thing.
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All that most parents hope is that their children are happy, funny, well adjusted, and have a passion for something in their lives. What would negate everything is if the next generation that we're responsible for has a passionless existence. And that's cause for occasional sleepless nights.
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It's just as hard staying happily married as it is doing movies.
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I view my wife as my lover, and we have a bond that goes beyond words like wife or girlfriend or mother.
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The pleasure of working with somebody who's an actor is they don't waste time with stuff that doesn't matter.
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I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.
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I hope my kids understand that they're not operating in a normal world. And yet there are principles they have to adhere to that are normal - like decency, choosing between right and wrong, and honesty. That's important stuff, whether you're flying first-class or not.
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I've been doing a pale imitation of Bill Murray for most of my career.
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Making a film is to make sure that everybody looks forward to coming to work.
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Back in World War II, we viewed the Japanese as 'yellow, slant-eyed dogs' that believed in different gods. They were out to kill us because our way of living was different. We, in turn, wanted to annihilate them because they were different. Does that sound familiar, by any chance, to what's going on today?
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I have faith that a script is going to hit me like a ton of bricks, and when that happens, it's undeniable that I should choose the role.
Tom Hanks