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I really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood.
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I am so used to being able to express myself from being an actor. So when people don't understand me, I'm just completely lost.
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Some actors need to be rattled and some need to be focused.
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I'm kind of an obsessive-compulsive person, like, neat obsessive.
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I actually loved Winnipeg. Everyone told me I was going to hate it, but it was great.
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Actors, you know, they're often awkward people in real life.
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I find that the most interestingly written parts happen to be the bad guys.
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I think, the first time I played Iago at the Public Theater, I realized I had a - much to my chagrin - I realized I had an instinct for these conflicted characters, for these torn characters, for these characters who could be described as evil. I wouldn't describe them that way.
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When my grandpa was moved to physical action, you felt utter terror.
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I'm terrible with big parties.
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I'm misrepresented as a scary person. I'm not. It's all about my size and my eyebrows.
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When you're in a place like New York or D.C. you just can't beat it, and it's so hard to recreate because they are both such distinctive places.
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I am very good with dialects, but the two that I can't do for some reason are the South African and Australian.
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The skill set for hockey is so specific to skating and if you haven't been skating as a kid it's impossible to play - and I wasn't a skater.
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I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women.
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I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.
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I have the kind of face that people want to punch.
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As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.
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Don't hit people; don't let it get you too angry; remember that everything you do can and will be used against you. And take a breath and have some perspective.
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I didn't think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing and still be somewhat artistic was, god help me, advertising.
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I'm not that interested in working with impervious people.
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Film is such a bizarre vehicle for acting. It's such a bizarre experience. I don't think you ever really get familiar with it. If you do get familiar with it, you're probably not that good anymore.
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I went to school in Massachusetts at Hampshire College.
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I manage to hide in my movies.