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Im attracted to things that are challenging and fun and interesting, and it certainly seems that audiences enjoy them as well.
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There's something very interesting about the way each individual actor approaches stuff.
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If youre not concerned about maintaining an image, you can pursue roads that another actor might not take.
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In recent years we've seen an explosion of creative programming, and I think it represents a third golden age of television because the creators have more control over the story. The audience doesn't care about the platform. They care about the content.
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I think people love it when anybody acts bad; its not particular to me.
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I'm aware that, from the outside, this looks like I've got quite an ego.
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Look, I might have lived in England for the last several years but I'm still an American citizen and I have not given up my right to privacy.
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If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!
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Why not sit around a Beverly Hills pool collecting residual cheques? That is not the kind of life I want.
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And I certainly won't lay out areas of my life that I think are just private.
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If there is one thing I object to, its actors talking about how tough their jobs are.
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Whatever mistakes you make this time around, you will live through on your next pass. Every mistake you make, you will live through again and again, forever. So my advice to you is to get it right this time around. Because this time is all you have.
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For kids growing up now, there's no difference watching 'Avatar' on an iPad or watching YouTube on TV or watching 'Game of Thrones' on their computer. It's all content. It's just story.
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Clarence Darrow was a unique and courageous man. Several of my favourite actors have played Darrow... Henry Fonda, Orson Welles and Spencer Tracy.
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The journey that we go on as actors is an interesting one and sometimes a revealing one.
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But I feel that I have a responsibility to help the film and I have relations with the studio and with those who put up the money so that I can tell a story that I believe in.
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I went through a period of great rebellion within my family, when I was about 9 or 10. I was mad, I had no focus, had no real interest in anything, and so I started to do things that were just rebellious and stupid.
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The story is everything, which means it's our job to tell better stories.
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There are good people in the lobbying industry. Lobbyists can serve a very useful purpose.
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When the story is good enough, people can watch something three times the length of an opera.
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We're all victims of our own hubris at times.
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Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions youd rather not know the answers to.
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Anyone with a internet connection and an idea can develop an audience
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My job is to interpret. I'm an interpreter. I can add things and bring unique qualities to the role that the writer may not have thought of, but someone else created the fundamental idea.