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" I did a movie called 'American Splendor', based on the comic book writer Harvey Pekar. "

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" This whole business feels kind of intense, like a bad fit. Round peg, square hole. But whatever, I'll take it. "

" I never thought I would have any particular career in movies at all. "

" Now, actors get so familiarized with Eastern Europe. I never imagined I'd get as familiar with Budapest and Prague and places like that in my life. "

" I try to avoid people as much as possible. They might change my life! "

" In a weird way, I like to find the quirkiness in ordinary things. I like to find what is ordinary in quirky people. "

" I'm not a big wine guy. And bars, I never go to bars anymore. It's such a drag, man. "

" I definitely have a tendency to only see the blemishes of things, and see lots of things about my acting that I don't like. "

" I like playing weird, kind of shady people. "

" Somehow whatever I play ends up being sleazy. "

" I still want to be the guy who can get on the subway and check out the freak on the subway. "

" It'd be disingenuous to say I don't like attention - I'm an actor for God's sake - and it's flattering and all, but attention was never my big goal. I just like to work and have a good time. "

" I was more used to acting onstage, for a long time. I don't know, maybe I was temperamentally more suited to stage stuff. And there are things about the stage that I miss in a lot of ways. "

" I've never not been proud of the work I was doing; I have nothing I have any shame about. "

" The 'Planet of the Apes' movies made me wanna - probably unconsciously - be an actor. Seriously. And The Mummy - and 'Hammer horror' movies. 'Fantastic.' I loved stuff like that, and that stuff probably did more than anything to make me wanna do it. "

" I don't mind talking about acting. I don't have anything interesting to say about it, but it's interesting talking about it. "

" I mean, I'm not going to play the hero of something. "

" I don't mind being stereotyped in some way and playing certain kinds of guys, but if I can find something to occasionally get a break from that, that would be nice. And I feel like I manage to. "

" I get tired of myself pretty fast. "

" The problem with getting injured when you get older is that it takes longer to recover. "

" I was never the class clown or put on shows at home. I never thought of acting as something I could do with my life. When I was a kid, I used to run around wrapped in toilet paper so I could be the Mummy. But that wasn't a sign that I was dreaming of being an actor. I was just an odd child. "

" My father died in 1989 before I knew what I was going to do with my life. I had just graduated from college. My mother died just before 'Sideways' came out. She knew I was an actor, but she never saw me become successful. "

" Am I really cool? You're telling me I'm cool? Well, that's good to hear. "

" I consider myself an atheist. My wife is Jewish. And I'm fine with my son being raised as a Jew. He's learning Hebrew and is really into it. I will talk to my own son about my atheism when the time is right. But there's a great tradition of Jewish atheism, there are no better atheists in the world than the Jews. "

" I have the mentality of a supporting actor. "

" The supporting thing can be harder to pop in and out of. The hardest thing is the people who have to come in and play, say, the bartender for a day - that's a lot harder than playing the lead role. You have to pop in and get it right. It's a lot of pressure to just pop in there and fit in and find your footing really fast. "

" I really do like a really good science fiction movie and a really good horror movie. Those are the kinds of things I really like. But, I mean, I'm not into sort of like slasher movies. I like a really good science fiction movie, which is hard to do. They don't make many really good ones any more. "

" I always would be happy to make a character even more unlikable, but you know, there's a limit and if you go there, you get into a very different kind of movie, man. "

" I played old men back in drama school. It's just now that I'm drawing level with the age of the characters I play, but I'm fine with that, and I've certainly never envied people who became hugely famous when they were young. "

" Lead roles are fun, but I'm especially happy other, more colorful supporting stuff has come along. "

" I don't think film actors need training, really, but I needed any help I could get. "