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The place I feel most at home is when I have health insurance. I really don't care how I get it, whether it's on film, or television or waiting tables, you know?
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If it doesn't feel like a job and I'm learning something and getting that rush that I get, I don't care if it's behind a camera, on a TV set, or on the moon.
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The vampire craze is kind of fascinating. We're interested in the idea of immorality and I think we're drawn to people or creatures who can give in to those base impulses and just be bad and not feel bad about it.
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Maybe I'm naive, but I subscribe to the idea that nobody is actually making strategic decisions about their career. Trying to do that would be like playing three-card monte on Canal Street.
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You think of George Washington, this man who was larger than life, and in some ways he was. But at the same time, he's just a person.
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The only thing more intimidating than a huge international film star is your mother-in-law.
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I always felt that if somebody picks on you it's because they're not happy doing what they're doing.
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Every job is an opportunity to be a better person.
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You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current.
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My dad is kind of a rascal, like in a Dickensian sense. He just goes from career to career.
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I went to Julliard and we did a lot of mask work there, and I remember thinking in class, 'When am I ever going to use this?'
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You never know when you'll have a bad idea for a worse joke.
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Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.
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You know, 1% of us is in the armed forces, protecting the other 99, and they're all volunteers.
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Even the greatest actors have had dry spells where they've wondered if they were going to work again.
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I'd consider myself a flailing comedy writer.
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I can always go back to construction. That's great money, but the problem is you can cut off your hand.
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New Orleans in an amazing town.
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I only play projects with weird interpretations of presidents.
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Don't trust somebody that don't have a troubled period.