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" As a struggling actor, you're not looking for parts that define you; you're just looking for work. "
Just
Work
Actor
" As for poker, I've stayed away from that, even though when I was in Vegas for Ocean's Eleven, I would get accosted by these guys begging me to play. They just want to take my money. They see me, think 'actor' and see some easy money. "
Ocean
Think
Vegas
" As somebody who makes his living in the movie business and wants to contribute to it, I think that the best chance I have of doing that is just consistently working with great directors. "
Best
Business
Great
" Being known as a writer did change the relationships I had with directors. The rap on actors is that they always want to inflate their parts. But when directors know you write screenplays and have a different view of things, you really get invited into the huddle in a much fuller way. And those collaborations end in friendships. "
End
View
Know
" Bond is part of the system. He's an imperialist and a misogynist, and he laughs at killing people, and he sits there slugging martinis. It'll never be the same thing as this, because Bourne is a guy who is against the establishment, who is paranoid and on the run. I just think fundamentally they're just very different things. "
Think
System
Run
" Eventually stardom is going to go away from me. It goes away from everybody and all you have in the end is to be able to look back and like the choices you made. "
End
Look
Me
" Fame is really strange. One day you're not famous, and then the next day you are, and the odd thing is that you know intellectually that nothing in the world is different. What mattered to you yesterday are the same things that matter today, and the rules all still apply - yet everyone looks at you differently. "
World
Today
Know
" For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again. "
Songs
Never
Some
" I believe a solid, really strong middle-class is the key to making the country in the best way. "
Country
Believe
Way
" I'd had people say, 'You'll enjoy being famous for a week, and you'll never enjoy it again'. But I don't think I had that week. I may have been working and missed that moment. "
Think
People
Moment
" I didn't grow up with great privilege, nor did I grow up wanting for anything. I was a middle-class kid and, relative to the rest of the world, that's great wealth. "
Grow
Wealth
Great
" I'd love to be a dad. I hope I'd be great at it. That's every man's fear, yet his most important job. "
Fear
Job
Man
" I don't see as many movies as I used to. Or, I should say, as many movies as I would like to. "
Used
Many
Movies
" If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day. "
My Life
Life
Photograph
" I fell in love with a civilian. Not an actress and not a famous actress at that. Because then the attention doesn't double - it grows exponentially. Because then suddenly everybody wants to be in your bedroom. But I don't really give them anything. "
Famous
Love
Double
" I found myself getting more publicly shy when the gala events and big crowds started. Some people embrace it. To me, it's not worth enough to risk my private life being public. "
Myself
Enough
Life
" If you are writing a story and trying to draw an audience to come and hear you tell it, it's got to in some way relate to them. Who wants to come and hear about your specific problems? It's not therapy - it's supposed to be a communal piece of entertainment. "
Problems
Writing
Trying
" If your movies don't perform, they just stop calling you. "
Movies
Your
You
" I honestly if I get a vacation I'm gonna go and sit on my couch in New York cause that's the one place I haven't been for a very long time. "
Vacation
Time
New York
" I love shooting, when the character is interesting and the script is interesting, but the research beforehand is really fun. The whole process makes me anxious and restless, and I have trouble sleeping, just trying to figure out the character. "
Research
Character
Love
" I'm always cautious about overstepping any boundaries. At the end of the day, it's a director's medium, and if they don't want to hear from me I just step back. "
Back
End
Step
" I'm becoming far more interested in just functionality and making sure my body is as strong as it can be so I can swing my kids around and not worry about aches and pains. "
I Can
More
Strong
" I'm not Brad Pitt or George Clooney. Those guys walk into a room and the room changes. I think there's something more... not average, but everyman about me. "
More
Me
Think
" I never wanted to do the same kind of movies over and over anyway, so my theory on it all is I'm just gonna try and dodge the label and keep doing what I am doing. "
Kind
Movies
Doing
" I started really young, like 12 or 13, and then I started doing school plays. We had a really good drama department, so the kind of drama-geek stigma wasn't really there in my high school. "
High School
School
Doing
" I started 'The Rainmaker' in August 1996, and I've been working consistently ever since. It's not like I had some grand plan; I keep getting offered jobs so good I can't say no. "
Started
Good
Like
" I think it's still hard for me to turn down work if it's really good because for so many years I was so desperate to get a job and couldn't and so it's kind of an anathema for me to turn down work. "
Think
Down
Work
" I think marrying somebody who's not a celebrity, it just takes a lot of the pressure off. "
Celebrity
Just
Think
" I think what makes a good actor's director is somebody who understands what I'm doing and is respectful of it, but who also has a vision and is directing me toward their vision in a way that feels productive. "
Good
Think
Vision
" I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie. "
Director
Actor
Acting
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