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" I demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either. "

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" You cut off the capacity for grief in your life, and you cut off the joy at the same time. They both come up through the same tunnel. You don't have one without the other. "

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

" When you are a kid, you are beset by fears, and you think, 'I'll solve the fear by living forever and becoming a movie star.' "

" Where did I study? I went to P.S. 6. I went to Collegiate, Middlesex, Tufts, Juilliard. "

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" You get older, and people start passing away. And so if you're lucky - my mom died very young, for instance, and I have friends who died very young - but the point being that, I think if you're awake, you know you're going to pass on. And that the real treasure in life is the long term - relationships that you really value. "

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

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

" I'm not going to party. I'm going to go do something that will make me break a sweat. "

" It was the moment I learned acting is not acting out. After that light went on, I spent the rest of my life trying to figure out how to make other people realize it. "

" The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being. "

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" You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold. "

" I have never worked with anyone who I hold in higher esteem than Chris Menges. He's an absolute, bona fide, authentic artist. "

" If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character. "

" For as privileged an actor as I have been, TV as a standard is short shrift. They have to do it so quickly that they don't stop and take a look. They just shoot. So that's one of the reasons I typically stay away from it. I think art is an act of consideration, and if you're not considering, I don't think you're really doing mankind a favor. "

" 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. "

" The achievement is appreciation. Your ability to be surprised and awed by beauty! "

" I need six weeks of rehearsal and women need nine months and it took me 15 years to figure that out. "

" I like to work. I'm glad; I'm privileged to have work. "

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

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" 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. "

" I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process. "

" 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. "