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" I'll never be the biggest kind of star; I'll be like Bob Duvall, respected as an actor but a lot of people can't identify the face. I don't have the personality of a big star, or the looks of a Mel Gibson or a Paul Newman, or the style of a George C. Scott. "

" I mean, a lot of time rehearsals are taken up with other things other than preparing a character. "

" I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set. "

" I don't throw things or yell. "

" I love Chicago, but in a lot of ways it's a disappointment. You can work there for years and years, and because you're in Chicago, you don't get the recognition. It has some of the best theater in the country, but when they shoot a movie there, they bring in all their actors. "

" I like very much to do movies. "

" I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it. "

" I know for a fact that a lot of actors are desperate and unhappy if their careers are not progressing at what they think is the correct rate. They just go crazy if they're not working. I don't feel I'd be that way. You can always get a few people together and put on a play. Maybe not in New York or L.A., but in a lot of other towns, you can. "

" Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly. "

" I mean, anything that money can be made off will never be a problem to make, no matter what it is. "

" I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved. "

" Every country has their problems. "

" I don't need to be liked. "

" I find it hard to pre-plan every element of everything I do. It's not my thing. "

" We're all animals. "

" When you do a really good play, the audience and the performers are looking into the same looking glass, the same microscope. And the specimen they are looking at is human life and that's why I do it, that's why I like it. "

" Sigmund Freud said we act out our own dreams, but if you are only an actor you are not acting out your own dream. You are simply participating in someone else's dream. "

" Failure's a natural part of life. "

" It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others. "

" It's tough to figure out how do we compete in Europe and North America, when obviously a living wage for us is very different than a living wage in Indonesia. "

" I'm not a Method actor. I don't believe acting should be psychodrama. I look within myself and see what I can find to play the role with. If I'm playing a blind man, I don't go around blindfolded for days. A lot of good actors would, but I don't go in for that very much. I like to just make it up as I go along. "

" I don't want to be boring. But that's not always easy. "

" I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that. "

" I probably have more female friends than any man I've ever met. What I like about them is that almost always they're generally mentally tougher, and they're better listeners, and they're more capable of surviving things. "

" I never really did a western western. "

" I have driven school buses, sold egg rolls and painted houses, and I have often wondered what my life would have been like if I hadn't gone into acting. Mind you, it's a great life, going around pretending you're other people and getting paid ridiculous sums of money for it. "

" If you're too smart it can limit you because you spend so much time thinking that you don't do anything. "

" The most evocative thing to me is probably when a writer and a group of performers can collectively put together something compelling that asks the really simple question: 'How do we live?' "

" You know, I'm really not interested in someone telling me that something's good or bad. "

" I admire sensible, kind people. They're not often famous. "