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" Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him. "

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" 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. "

" '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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I think of myself more as a workhorse actor. It will be hot and cold and up and down, but no one will kick me out of the business. "

" 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. "

" I started working in the mid-to-late Seventies, when television was not what it is now. "

" With 'Transparent'. When Amazon put 'Transparent' up, along with 'Bosch' and a few other things, I watched them, and I thought it was an interesting exercise. I didn't comment on them, but I was like, 'Okay, this is kind of cool.' "

" 'Animal House' was my first movie, so I didn't have anything to compare it to. I was a sight gag more than anything else. So I can't say it was one of those things where your life changes. When the movie came out, I had to ask for the night off at the bar. "

" I like to hike and cook. I enjoy furniture and design - not making it, just looking at it. I'm always kind of trying to spread my interests around and try new things. "

" I wanted to do something heroic if I was going to be on TV. And the first thing that appeals to me once I have decided I don't want to be the bad guy is to find things that are not black and white. "

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" To me, the struggle is to try to make a less-well-written or less-well-rounded character and find who they are. If you really get it, and it's all on the page, then it's really just gonna pop out at you. "

" I would say invisibility would be sort of a fun power to have just to see what it was like to move through the world and not be looked at. "

" Certainly, network television in general relies a little bit too much on keeping people focused and emotional and scared and pushing the envelope by building wall-to-wall music. "

" Do you want to be the guy with a game named after you or be the one with 18 Oscar nominations? "

" Whether it's my age or my misspent youth, sometimes I forget whether I've worked with somebody or not. "

" Keep doing what you're doing. Don't be afraid of fame. "

" I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood. "

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

" I'm a vagabond. I have a suitcase that is ready to go at a moment's notice. The thought of being in one place for a long time, or playing one character for a long time, is terrifying for me. "

" I'd love to be a pop idol. Of course, my groupies are now between 40 and 50. "

" 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. "

" For my wife and I, for so many years, a lot of our identity was based on being Hollywood haters. We were like, 'We're east-coast. We're New Yorkers. This is just a place that we have to come to, but not by choice.' "

" There's this American dream to put enough away that you can golf and build a birdhouse or just be in a Barcalounger watching football all day. I'll never be that guy. And I'm not really sure the people who have that are all that happy. Our desires as a man are to work, plow ahead, and overcome conflict. "

" There is a lesson there about greed and it is a lesson I am willing to learn as well. Has it made me a distrustful person? I don't think so. But we probably look a bit more carefully at our financial situation now. "

" 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 look at films about becoming a man, coming-of-age movies are made with 12-, 16-, 40-, 50-year-olds... For a guy to feel like he's a 100 percent grown-up is almost like giving up. Like admitting that you're on your way into the grave. "

" I'm very comfortable being married to an extremely strong, opinionated, and driven woman. But I also sit at the head of the table. I have both of those sides to me. "

" I don't have any plans of slowing down. I love being an actor. "