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" Doing funny scary is something that is rarely good and rarely works, and it's also something that's incredibly hard to market. "

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" I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic. "

" I do better on the first three takes; I won't be better at 20 takes. "

" I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else. "

" In my movie work, if I do one guy, the next guy I do, I want to do something kind of different. Even in terms of genre - it's really great to mix it up a little. "

" From the time I signed on to 'The Following,' things have already vastly changed in the entertainment world in general. It's an adjustment for me. "

" One of the top comments I get from people is, 'Oh my God, you're like a regular person!' That's kind of a bizarre thing to live with. I know a lot of famous people, and their lives may not be regular, but they are regular people. "

" Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent. "

" It does get old to have to always be a monkey in a zoo. I don't know what it's like any more to be anonymous. "

" If you take me out of it, I find 'six degrees' to be a beautiful concept that we should try to live by. It's about compassion and responsibility for everyone on the planet. "

" Here's the thing - I mean, I don't act for statues. I really don't. The great thing about winning an award is that it creates opportunities. "

" Kevin's mind goes to extremely interesting places. Every time we get a script, I go, 'Oh my God, I really didn't see that coming'. "

" I did a year of 'Guiding Light', and I was going to be a movie actor or a stage actor, but not a TV actor. That just wasn't going to happen. And obviously, things changed so remarkably. "

" I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though. "

" As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive. "

" 'The River Wild' was great, with Meryl Streep. That guy was really a bad dude who was ultimately sort of fundamentally impotent in a weird way. That was kind of interesting. "

" Show me an actor who doesn't want to be famous, and I'll show you a liar. Later, you realise that there's more to it than just the acquisition of fame, and money and girls. But that is what drives them and was what drove me, initially. "

" I always have a suitcase ready to go. My wife and I are both very much like this. We're both vagabonds, and we have been since the time we were married. "

" I used to live on Riverside Park in New York, on the Upper West Side. "

" I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act. "

" If I'm in a situation where someone doesn't recognize me and treats me like everyone else, I'm not used to it. "

" My kids don't watch my movies. What I want to do is go home and hug my kids, talk to them and engage with them. "

" There are two things that create opportunities. One is being involved with something that makes money, and the other is winning awards. And the reason that winning the awards creates the opportunities is because it gives the people who are selling the picture the opportunity to make more money. "

" I'm an actor. It's what I do. It's what I chose to do with my life when I was a little boy, and that's what Im still doing. I like to work. I came up with a work ethic, and that's just what I do. "

" I'm new to this TV thing, at least as an actor. It's a challenge. The thing I have to adjust to is the changing directors every week. That's new for me. I tend to establish with a director - and then two days later, he's gone. "

" Fame is very much a double-edged sword. "

" Great writing makes great television. "

" The way I analyze a script, I don't look at how many days I have off. I see how far they're going to push me. That's just the way I am. "

" I still want to make Kyra proud of the person I am - father, husband, actor, musician. "

" I want to see the numbers that prove that show-business marriages are any less successful than other marriages. It's just very public when they fail. "

" The most challenging work and the best work I've ever done was in a thing I did for PBS called 'Lemon Sky', a play by Lanford Wilson. I think it's the rawest, most complex work that I've had to do, and the thing I'm most proud of. "