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" Every girl I've gone out with has said something to me first. "

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" It's good to overexpose yourself with work. But don't expose yourself too much with the press. "

" I think conflicted characters are always more interesting. "

" That's one of the benefits of working on big budget films. You work with people who have a lot of experience and you get to learn a lot. "

" I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York. "

" If you fall in love with somebody you're working with, fine, but wait till your project is over. "

" I manage to hide in my movies. "

" I didn't think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing and still be somewhat artistic was, god help me, advertising. "

" Don't hit people; don't let it get you too angry; remember that everything you do can and will be used against you. And take a breath and have some perspective. "

" Some actors need to be rattled and some need to be focused. "

" I'm misrepresented as a scary person. I'm not. It's all about my size and my eyebrows. "

" During 'Manchurian Candidate' - that role originated with Laurence Harvey, and I studied everything he did. I would never be able to reproduce that performance, but I got a lot of ideas from watching it. "

" You know, I have a deep, deep affinity for Dr. Seuss. "

" Everyone says villains are thankless parts, but those are really the best roles. "

" I love having that creative discussion where, at the end of the day, you both feel better for having done it. Maybe it's a typically Jewish thing, where you sort of go at each other. "

" The worst bar fights I ever saw were in London. I saw a guy break a pint glass in another guy's face in a club in the Eighties. It was a gay club, too. "

" It's finding time for each other. That's the trick to any relationship, you know. Finding time to really be present for each other. "

" My mother didn't let me see color films. I saw a lot of black-and-white films. The first time I saw Basil Rathbone, I was completely taken. To me, that was the epitome of great acting, was Basil Rathbone - not only in Sherlock Holmes, but the Sheriff of Nottingham, and all the terrible characters he had to play alongside Errol Flynn. "

" I am very good with dialects, but the two that I can't do for some reason are the South African and Australian. "

" I have Slavic fat pads that make me look like a chipmunk and arched predatory eyebrows. With that, you're not going to get funny. That's why I play so many bad guys. "

" I find old women at weddings and funerals attractive; I have this weird mortality thing. "

" You always have to create the character from the ground up. "

" I'm terrible with big parties. "

" I have the kind of face that people want to punch. "

" I did some research into what was going on in terms of the sexual revolution that was happening in the '60s in the gay community and particularly in the drag world. Before the '60s, guys doing drag would dress like their mothers or iconic Hollywood actresses. "

" I find that the most interestingly written parts happen to be the bad guys. "

" Hamlet is a remarkably easy role. Physically it's hard because it tends to be about three hours long and you're talking the whole time. But it's a simple role and it adapts itself very well, because the thing about Hamlet is, we all are Hamlet. "

" You watch a hockey game, and the hand-eye coordination and the speed is really miraculous; how those guys track the puck alone, just following it with their eyes. "

" I get panic attacks in big crowds. "