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" All I know is that my best work has come out of being committed and happy. "
Work
Out
Know
" Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful. "
Friend
Father
Successful
" Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity. "
Famous
Feel
Me
" But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all. "
Going
Amazing
Know
" Celebrity is a pathological sickness of the culture. Narcissists on screen being consumed by narcissists off-screen. "
Celebrity
Being
Culture
" David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists. "
David
Artists
Knows
" Defeating fear is not a light switch. For most of us, it's daily work. "
Fear
Light
Us
" Every single second of extra time to work with other actors has definitely always, for me, paid off for the film. For the project. Every single extra heartbeat you could get, mutually considering the scene, was of benefit. "
Always
Me
Time
" Fame... it's been a challenge, let's put it that way. It's a privilege and a responsibility, and I'm not sure I carried the responsibility well at times, which is embarrassing. And I've had to look and be disappointed in myself occasionally for how I behaved in some circumstances. "
Challenge
Myself
Responsibility
" For as privileged an actor as I have been, TV as a standard is short shrift. They have to do it so quickly that they don't stop and take a look. They just shoot. So that's one of the reasons I typically stay away from it. I think art is an act of consideration, and if you're not considering, I don't think you're really doing mankind a favor. "
Look
Short
Think
" Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study. "
Study
Long
Great
" Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge. "
Risks
Me
Heroes
" I am constantly asked, 'What's the difference between acting in the theater and acting in film?' The only answer I can give is the space - you adapt to the space. But acting is acting. "
I Am
Adapt
Acting
" I am just as comfortable in Britain and France as I am in America... but nowhere is perfect. "
Am
Perfect
I Am
" I am not a famous person at home - I'm just a guy here. I'm a father, I'm a companion, I'm a human being. I am not a public figure in my house; I am not a celebrity. I am not a famous person to myself - I am just a guy. "
Famous
Myself
I Am
" I am so thrilled by the privilege of life, and yet at the same time I know that I have to let it go. "
Privilege
Time
Life
" I demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either. "
Paid
Rehearsal
Demand
" I didn't study interviews. I studied acting. "
Interviews
Acting
Study
" I don't have any artifacts of my profession in my house; the Oscar is in storage. "
Any
Storage
House
" I don't put the truth in a cage. I try to find a way to release it. "
Try
Way
Cage
" I don't want my children to have to wade through the crap to get to the cream, you know. I want them to be aware that I struggled to live with and tell my truth, and that it was a decent thing. "
Know
Live
Truth
" If you don't exercise, you don't stay strong. I like to work with talented people. "
People
Work
Strong
" If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character. "
Create
You
Lucky
" I generally try to think of what it is I want to express and then find a way of expressing it. "
Try
Think
Expressing
" I grew up in the South Pacific. Basically, my brothers were Guamanian. I spoke words of Guamanian long before I spoke words of English, and so I've seen a lot. You know, I've traveled in places where people don't have the benefits of American life. And so I've seen a lot of stuff. "
American
You
Long
" I had great qualms about playing a man who was living. I've never met Walt McCandless, and I never will. "
Living
Great
Will
" I have a film I want to direct. Gena Rowlands was going to do it with me a long time ago. It's about an older woman who's running a ranch in the west the old fashioned way. "
Long
Want
Time
" I have a way of synthesizing. That's what I would encourage any young person to do: take in the ideas, the conflicts, and the world. Watch and listen and live before you go public. "
You
World
Young
" I have never worked with anyone who I hold in higher esteem than Chris Menges. He's an absolute, bona fide, authentic artist. "
Never
Than
Who
" I haven't planned a reaction on anything... If you do, you've screwed up. "
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Reaction
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