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" Am I really cool? You're telling me I'm cool? Well, that's good to hear. "

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" 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. "

" Somehow whatever I play ends up being sleazy. "

" Honestly, I never wanted to be more than a good supporting actor. Really, I enjoy it. "

" 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. "

" The white male is one of the easiest things to be. There's always a job; there's always something for you to do. "

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

" I've got to be the geekiest guy in the world in a lot of ways. I'm like a zeta male. "

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

" I definitely had a top-notch education. "

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

" 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. "

" Lead roles are fun, but I'm especially happy other, more colorful supporting stuff has come along. "

" It'd be disingenuous to say I don't like attention - I'm an actor for God's sake - and it's flattering and all, but attention was never my big goal. I just like to work and have a good time. "

" I get tired of myself pretty fast. "

" I don't mind being stereotyped in some way and playing certain kinds of guys, but if I can find something to occasionally get a break from that, that would be nice. And I feel like I manage to. "

" There is something pleasurable for an actor to produce something and not be in it. "

" I wanted to play Zapruder, as he is a man you really don't know much about: a faceless, anonymous figure. "

" I was never the class clown or put on shows at home. I never thought of acting as something I could do with my life. When I was a kid, I used to run around wrapped in toilet paper so I could be the Mummy. But that wasn't a sign that I was dreaming of being an actor. I was just an odd child. "

" In a weird way, I like to find the quirkiness in ordinary things. I like to find what is ordinary in quirky people. "

" I was an English major at Yale, but I did do undergraduate theater there. And I went to the graduate school for acting. "

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" It is because my dad died suddenly that I became an actor. I thought, I'm going to make money doing this thing I enjoy. "

" One of my favourite things growing up was 'Asterix', those books. "

" I was a big 'Planet of The Apes' fan, so I was really excited about being in it. I had a really good time. I liked wearing all that stuff, and I liked playing the part. "

" I really only started doing film in '97. I mean, before then, I just pretty much did theater. "

" Growing up, I didn't know where I was headed, except to the grave or maybe to the gutter. I went through wanting to do a lot of things, but acting wasn't one of them. "

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

" Acting can be a really silly thing. It's like playing dress-up. "

" I was more used to acting onstage, for a long time. I don't know, maybe I was temperamentally more suited to stage stuff. And there are things about the stage that I miss in a lot of ways. "

" I'm pretty easy to get along with on set, but I'm probably hard on myself. "

" 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. "