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" I'm clearly not Brad Pitt, and I'm never going to be Brad Pitt. "

" I was the youngest child and got a lot more freedom than my brother and sister. I used to wander, doing my own thing under the radar, but I didn't get in bad, bad trouble. "

" The supporting thing can be harder to pop in and out of. The hardest thing is the people who have to come in and play, say, the bartender for a day - that's a lot harder than playing the lead role. You have to pop in and get it right. It's a lot of pressure to just pop in there and fit in and find your footing really fast. "

" I don't mind talking about acting. I don't have anything interesting to say about it, but it's interesting talking about it. "

" Do you know Don Coscarelli? 'Bubba Ho-Tep?' That's one of my favorite movies in the world. And I love the 'Phantasm' movies. "

" Now, actors get so familiarized with Eastern Europe. I never imagined I'd get as familiar with Budapest and Prague and places like that in my life. "

" 'Capricorn One' just seemed like... wow. That was it, y'know? Nothing was ever going to be better than that movie. "

" If I play a more aggressive, stronger guy, I often go through my day feeling a bit better than when I play somebody who's not. "

" I would probably choose supporting roles if I had to make a choice. It's actually a really hard thing to say. It's all on a role-by-role basis, ultimately. I shouldn't be so quick to say that. I feel like you're given greater license to be colorful and eccentric in supporting roles, and that's interesting to me. "

" I'm not a big wine guy. And bars, I never go to bars anymore. It's such a drag, man. "

" I worked with J. T. Walsh - it was one of the best experiences I ever had - a fantastic actor and a great guy. I was in the last movie that he did: 'The Negotiator.' He died a couple of months after that. He was great. "

" 'Rosemary's Baby' is a real New York movie, even though you wouldn't necessarily think of it as one, though I do. "

" I don't consider myself a very interesting person. I have the mentality of a supporting actor. "

" Well, you know, when people say stuff about you, it's always really flattering. But does it mean anything to me? It's not really real to me; there's no reality to it. "

" I mean, I'm not going to play the hero of something. "

" I always would be happy to make a character even more unlikable, but you know, there's a limit and if you go there, you get into a very different kind of movie, man. "

" The 'Planet of the Apes' movies made me wanna - probably unconsciously - be an actor. Seriously. And The Mummy - and 'Hammer horror' movies. 'Fantastic.' I loved stuff like that, and that stuff probably did more than anything to make me wanna do it. "

" I really do like a really good science fiction movie and a really good horror movie. Those are the kinds of things I really like. But, I mean, I'm not into sort of like slasher movies. I like a really good science fiction movie, which is hard to do. They don't make many really good ones any more. "

" Somehow whatever I play ends up being sleazy. "

" I still want to be the guy who can get on the subway and check out the freak on the subway. "

" I suppose there must be some way in which I'm compelled to show some side of myself - or of people - that's paranoid and fraught and beleaguered and downtrodden, just as Tom Cruise wants to show that he's terrifyingly upbeat and terrifyingly heroic all the time. "

" I definitely have a tendency to only see the blemishes of things, and see lots of things about my acting that I don't like. "

" My father died in 1989 before I knew what I was going to do with my life. I had just graduated from college. My mother died just before 'Sideways' came out. She knew I was an actor, but she never saw me become successful. "

" It's funny: most people who recognize me on the subway and stuff - it's much more they think of me as a funny guy. I get much more of people telling me how much I make them laugh, actually. Which is nice. "

" I've never not been proud of the work I was doing; I have nothing I have any shame about. "

" As an actor, to have achieved financial stability is amazing. But I always have this weird fear that I'm not going to get any more work; it's about not having enough money. "

" I don't feel like I've ever done anything - even 'Big Momma's House' - that I didn't really have some desire to do. "

" With 'Duplicity', I was a little bit like, 'This isn't that hard of a movie.' This isn't like some huge brain trust of a movie. You gotta be a little bit awake to follow the plot, but it's really just a kind of light entertainment. It's like those Cary Grant movies, which are not meant to be anything other than diverting. In a nice way. "

" I find that the crazy narcissists, the selfish loons are often the most fun to be around, weirdly. "

" I played old men back in drama school. It's just now that I'm drawing level with the age of the characters I play, but I'm fine with that, and I've certainly never envied people who became hugely famous when they were young. "