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" I am so thrilled by the privilege of life, and yet at the same time I know that I have to let it go. "

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" I am not a famous person at home - I'm just a guy here. I'm a father, I'm a companion, I'm a human being. I am not a public figure in my house; I am not a celebrity. I am not a famous person to myself - I am just a guy. "

" The enemies of acting are mood and attitude and other general homogenized disruptive entities. Whereas acting is about action - doing - and unless you can figure out a way to craft in an imaginative reality to which you don't submit, you're going to be out of control. You'll flip out. The job is to be surprised. "

" I live in the county where my mother was born and buried. "

" The thrill of acting is the discovery part, so it all changes, but it has to change in a way that fits what is written. You can't just wander off and get interested in your own tangent. "

" I had great qualms about playing a man who was living. I've never met Walt McCandless, and I never will. "

" I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people. "

" I'm never happier than when I'm with my family. "

" I've made a couple of films that were a little too wide and non-specific - like 'The Doctor.' "

" Celebrity is a pathological sickness of the culture. Narcissists on screen being consumed by narcissists off-screen. "

" Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study. "

" Every single second of extra time to work with other actors has definitely always, for me, paid off for the film. For the project. Every single extra heartbeat you could get, mutually considering the scene, was of benefit. "

" There's fear or faith. If you're living by fear, then you're always looking for security. If you're living by faith, then you're always looking for freedom. "

" I've been delighted by Cannes and Toronto but I keep saying I don't know how good we're going to be received in America because that's where it's most challenging. "

" The irony is that the more specific you are in the portrayal of character, the more like other people you are. In the same way, the more you think about how alone you are in this life, you realise how much a brother and sister everyone else is. "

" Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity. "

" I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily. "

" But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all. "

" You can only sit on the frustration of wanting to express something for so long. "

" I'm an actor. I play roles in films and theaters. I don't act out, and I don't play people. "

" I didn't study interviews. I studied acting. "

" Rage with panache. "

" Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just trying to get in and you're given so little time to get in gently, but it's always hard. "

" The point is that there are challenges within techniques. When you differentiate in technique, you challenge yourself; you ask yourself the same question in a new way. "

" I don't have any artifacts of my profession in my house; the Oscar is in storage. "

" The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact. "

" It's been a long comeback. Things were pretty dark for me. But I have a faith now, and it saves my day. I was angry with God for a long time because I was unhappy with me. I hadn't learned to make the distinction between God and my parents. But there's a peace now. In the end, I got sick and tired of being sick and tired. "

" Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful. "

" Post-adolescence reaches usually into the late 30s. "

" I'm not there to tailor the role to me: I'm there to tailor me to the role. That guarantees me something, a precious thing, which is creativity. I'm guaranteed that I will have a creative experience, because I will go to it, not demand that it comes to me. "