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" I always think that I'm not going to be right for a movie or that there's someone else who can do it better. "
Michael Keaton
Someone
Right
Think
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" There comes a point in your life when you realize how quickly time goes by, and how quickly it has gone. Then it really speeds up exponentially. With that, I think you start to put a lot of things into context; you start to see how huge the world is, and really, the universe. "
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" I still really like newspapers. I'm gonna feel really sad when they go. Or not - maybe I'll be dead. "
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" David Letterman used to say, 'I wasn't the class clown, but I wrote for him,' and that's exactly it. You want to be known to be funny without having it pointed out. "
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" I grew up in rural Pennsylvania, in a really rundown old house. I'd stay out till 8:30, 9:00 at night. Just blow in. My mom and dad never really cared much. It was okay. We were pretty free to roam. I mean, I had no concept of stopping play. It just didn't occur to anyone. "
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" All actors are my brothers and my sisters. It ain't cool to compare or disparage them. It ain't polite. "
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" Will Ferrell makes me laugh a lot when he gets out there and gets crazy. "
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" I saw 'Wild,' and I thought, 'Wow, this is a lot of things, but one of the things is it's a therapist's dream and a climate-change denier's nightmare.' "
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" I went through a lazy period. "
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" My brothers were tremendous shack builders. My shacks were horrible. My brothers once built a two-story shack from the ground up that was awesome! "
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" There're only a few photographers I've ever felt really comfortable with. "
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" No, I don't see many movies. I don't even see my own movies. "
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" I never wanted to play the short game. "
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" From the time I was a kid, I was crazy about anything having to do with the West. I'd look at all of these photos of Montana, and they all seemed so magical and majestic. I just wanted to go west, and I finally did it when I was barely 21. I went off to volunteer at a Navajo reservation in New Mexico. "
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" Colbert makes me crazy: he's so funny. Plus, he seems like an extraordinarily decent dude. "
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" I remember my mom threatening me, half-serious: 'You know what? I should take you to Pittsburgh and put you in dance lessons just to keep you occupied.' Well, that brought everything to a screeching halt. 'Jeeze, dance lessons.' In retrospect, it would have been awesome, but then, 'Ugh, dancing - dancing's for sissies.' "
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" There are times when I consciously give the character something physical - a walk, the way he sits, how he talks, or his lack of physicality, which is like a physicality. "
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" I used to work on a survey crew, because my dad was an engineer, but he was also a surveyor. "
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" 'Beetlejuice' was a romp, man. 'Beetlejuice' was fun. I've never had so much fun in my life. "
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" We had four guys in the family, so somebody was always hitting somebody or chasing somebody or getting mad or fighting or wrestling - that was just what you did. So when you're the youngest, it's good for you. You figure out real early how to get out of headlocks and holds. "
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" I'm envious of writers and musicians. I think it must be so difficult. Not just the frustration, but the discipline. "
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" I really like to hear actors talk about acting, but I don't really like hearing myself talk. "
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