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" Acting was something I needed like air. It wasn't something I could walk away from. "
Wentworth Miller
Away
Air
Acting
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" I'm hoping that what I am or what I'm not ethnically doesn't limit me in anyone else's eyes. I guarantee you it doesn't in mine. "
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" My definition of cool is finding your own definition of cool and not necessarily taking your lead from what other people tell you or from what you might read from magazines or see on TV. "
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" Nobody's ever asked me to pay for a meal before I've eaten it, I've never been pulled over just because I was driving the wrong kind of car in the wrong kind of area at the wrong time of night. "
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" A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs. "
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" There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of. "
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" I spend my weekends sleeping and watching DVDs, and eating at restaurants within a 2-block radius of my apartment. "
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" In my career as an actor, there is a catchphrase that Scofield always says often in regards to his brother, 'Have a little faith.' In my own career as an actor, there were times when I was the only one who believed in myself in the face of the odds. "
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" They told me at the end of that test that they wanted me to be a part of this project. I walked out and had a moment of clarity where I thought, not many people will ever have this moment. "
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