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" Acting is not about knowing all this stuff; it's about character. "
Knowing
Stuff
About
" Anyone who devotes time and attention to what makes people tick, to me, is a smart person. "
Who
Attention
Me
" Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers. "
Fear
Truth
Public
" But some actors I have met possess an intelligence that I can only dream of. It's about character, it's about behavior. They understand things about people that I simply don't see. "
Character
Dream
Intelligence
" But why should I run for office and lose what little influence I have? "
Office
Run
Why
" For about the first ten years of my career, I wasn't terribly motivated. "
Motivated
First
Career
" I can't talk about foreign policy like anyone who's spent their life reading and learning foreign policy. But as a citizen in a democracy, it's very important that I participate in that. "
Life
Learning
Reading
" I do believe all actors are smart. "
Believe
Smart
" I don't even like to use the word relationship. I don't know what it means. "
Like
Even
Relationship
" If I don't see my kids for six days, I start to get withdrawal pains. "
Start
Days
See
" If you don't think you want to go on a train and read the paper every day and work from nine to six at night, there was something about the uncertainty when I was younger which was very attractive. "
Day
Train
Work
" I had no desire from an early age to be on the stage. "
Age
Stage
Early
" I just don't get invited to the same dinner parties I used to like to go to. "
Same
Go
Used
" I kind of dwindled into acting. "
Kind
Acting
" I kind of have a dilettantish spirit about me. "
About
Spirit
Me
" I'm a 9/11 Republican. "
Republican
" In Europe, people in the arts are considered part of the intelligentsia; they are considered part of the elite. "
Arts
Europe
Elite
" Involvement in public affairs is a legitimate use of celebrity. "
Involvement
Use
Celebrity
" I saw and I met a lot of people who were in the field. It also provided a context in which I came to respect what the actor did, because I saw how difficult it actually was to do. "
People
Respect
Field
" I started getting jobs, and I thought it was going to be real easy. "
Started
Be Real
Easy
" I still think I'm going to do something else when I grow up. "
Grow
Going
Think
" I think it's good to meet smart people and talk. "
Talk
Good
People
" I think you have an obligation to be an optimist. Because if you're not, nothing will change. "
Will
Nothing
Think
" I've seen people with a tremendous amount of educational background in the field not turn out to be terribly good actors, and I've seen people with no education in the field turn out to be people that I admire quite a bit. "
People
Admire
Education
" I was immature the way I handled the business. I saw myself as a tribune of the people. "
Business
Way
Immature
" You have to think an awful lot about your motivations or people's behavioral intentions or what their body language can indicate or what's really going on or what makes people sometimes do, sometimes, the irrational things they do. "
Think
Language
Body
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