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" Craft comes into acting later rather than sooner. I was somebody who had to learn through a process - a natural actor doesn't need to. "

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" I am a limousine liberal. "

" I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies. "

" I'm not a breakfast eater. "

" I choose movies that I think will speak to what's important. "

" The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different. "

" When I was growing up and somebody like Robert De Niro had a movie come out, it was a cultural event. Because he had such a confidence and a single mission that was so intimate. "

" Marriage ain't easy, but it's great most of the time. "

" Oh, I'm a big-mouth. I said a lot of things. "

" Hal Holbrook was in one of my first television movies when I was about 18 or 19. He'd made such a strong impression on me and a lasting one in terms of what being an actor was. "

" I think life's an irrational obsession. "

" Selling a movie feels like a hustle to every bone in my body. Many actors have careers dominated by modeling. They're all over the place. It turns me off. People who are good at what they do ought to practice something bigger. "

" I can always see light in any situation. It's just the way I'm made. "

" That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too. "

" I love acting, truly my favorite people are actors. "

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" At this stage, what would be rewarding would be for audiences to want to watch. "

" Yeah, I had a tremendous time shooting in Nebraska. I like that state a lot, all over it. "

" I've never really been one to get what they call stage fright so much. "

" In my teens, I fell in love with the movies. "

" I'll tell you what I probably would prefer to happen less and less: actors that I know and respect in shampoo ads. Or modeling. "

" Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine. "

" Anger can be a problem, but it has tremendous potential, too. It's just figuring out what to do with it. "

" There is no shame in my saying that we all want to be loved by someone. As I look back over my life in romance, I don't feel I've ever had that. "

" There is a strength of character in the people who have, by and large, never experienced comfort. "

" In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor. "

" I'm always frustrated when somebody makes a movie out of a book and they leave the book behind, or the heart of it. "

" I just want real creative freedom without worrying about, you know, car payments. "

" I think we all have light and dark inside us. "

" I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point. "

" The major studios are by and large banks, and they give you what is by and large a loan to make a movie. Like banks, they want their money back plus. "

" It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama. "