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" Haiti kind of gets a hold of you. "

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" We've let the blade of our innocence dull over time, and it's only in innocence that you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage. "

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" 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. "

" There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged. "

" I don't consider myself specifically political, you know? I think of working as an actor as being a human thing. The concerns I have that fall into politics are human concerns. "

" If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game. "

" I consider myself fortunate that in my home, acting or the creative arts were a good option. This was a respected tour of duty in my family. Acting wasn't something that was left to tragic bohemians. But we weren't a family that obsessed on cinema. "

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

" When you act in a film, you're inevitably surrounded by people you didn't choose, right down to the set painter. I like being able to pick the family I'm waking up to in the morning that's going to make this group effort to tell a story that applies to what's interesting to me at that stage in my life. "

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

" In school, I was a genius of the year preceding the year I was in, every year. "

" What happens is things come to you - director, script - and if you respond to it, it's because it's tapping into some part of what's inside you, and different roles tap into different parts. "

" I think life's an irrational obsession. "

" Somewhere along the line, the actions of this government are the actions of me. "

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

" Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking. "

" I think you start to prepare the minute you read something. "

" You try to do your best at what you're getting paid for. "

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

" I live in the energy and rhythm of the character. To some degree, that's true of every actor I've worked with. "

" I am a Justin Timberlake fan. "

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

" Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that. "

" 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. "

" I've been a road-rat since I got my driver's licence at 16, so I've probably gone across America 20 times. "