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" I don't drink blood, and last time I looked in the mirror, I had a reflection. "

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" I do tend to apply myself to projects that make me uncomfortable because usually when that happens I try to find a way of existing in the project that is more creative. "

" I always see America as really belonging to the Native Americans. Even though I'm American, I still feel like a visitor in my own country. "

" I know what it's like to meet someone you admire and have them be a complete jerk. "

" You can't make your choices based on what critics think. You have to make your choices based on what's honest for you. "

" I believe that there's a way to question authority with manners, with dignity. There's no reason to be rude about it. "

" I've always maintained that I see myself as a student. There's always something to learn and be challenged by and hopefully grow from. "

" I'm at the point now where I know I'm doing something right when a movie gets mixed reviews, because then I'm not in the box. I don't want to make it too easy for people and I don't want to make it too easy for myself. I want to try something unusual. "

" One of the things that's interesting to me is I find things like caffeine and stunts actually relax me. When they're putting a bit of gel on my arm and lighting me on fire, or when I'm about to go into a high-speed car chase or rev a motorcycle up pretty fast, I find everything else around me slows down. "

" I do like to move and get physical in my movies. "

" When I won the Oscar, I made a point of actively going against that and doing adventure films like 'Con Air' and 'Gone in 60 Seconds,' not what would be expected. "

" Passion is very important to me. If you stop enjoying things, you've got to look at it, because it can lead to all kinds of depressing scenarios. "

" I think that if you go about making movies to win Oscars, you're really going about it the wrong way. "

" I haven't made anything I don't believe in. I've always started a movie with a song in my heart, and even when I'm a little unclear about it, something magical happens and it comes into focus in a way that I'm feeling good about. "

" One of the pluses of getting older is you set some limits. "

" My mother was a dancer, so I like to use the body as part of the instrument of acting. "

" You can choose your family sometimes. You can choose people, it could be a teacher, it could be a professor, it could be someone you work with that actually genuinely cares about you and wants you to succeed. "

" I've gotten pretty good at leaving characters on the set. I go home and try to relax and regroup and be ready for the next day. "

" Idris Elba is a grand actor. He's very larger than life; he's bigger than life. "

" Celebrity is a word I take great umbrage with. I'm actively anti-celebrity. "

" I would like to find a way to embrace what Led Zeppelin did, in filmmaking. "

" The best characters are the ones that somehow manage to be both attractive and repulsive at the same time. If you do that, you're at the center of the universe - if you can find characters who are more ambiguous and can raise more questions than answers. "

" I use technology for communication, but I don't have a Blackberry or an iPhone. I use an outdated cell phone, but I'm fine with it. "

" Mel Blanc is a hero because of what he could do with his voice for all the Looney Tunes, the Warner Brothers cartoons, to be the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Porky Pig. To me, he's a great actor. "

" Acting is like any other art form, in that you have the option to go very big or go very small. "

" I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies. "

" How do you say one actor is better than another actor? You can definitely say that in the Olympics if it's the same race and someone wins the race. The only way to really do it and have it be sincere would be if you get all the actors together, and they're all playing the same part, and then you rate which one made you feel the most. "

" I never studied dance, but if you look at 'Wild At Heart,' my mother saw that movie and said, 'You are a dancer. Look at how you're moving: all that strange energy is like modern dance.' "

" I don't want to sit around by the pool luxuriating with a margarita. That's just not what I want to do. "

" Someone like Vincent Price or somebody like Christopher Lee, they never won an award, and it doesn't matter. They're cool. "

" I've always had a soft spot for comic books. I learned to read from them. The words in them were so interesting. "