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" I don't know how anybody gets better at anything aside from doing it. "

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" Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within. "

" I never thought about the actors on television or film, like what kind of life they had. "

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" Maybe the best things about celebrity are the things like being able to get that seat on the plane that you wouldn't normally get, but that's kind of like cheating. "

" Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet. "

" I'm constantly amazed by the ability a child has to show sympathy, to read emotions, to get to the heart of any situation. It's unfiltered and completely inspiring. "

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" I love animals and I love working with them because they don't lie. "

" The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be - and when they're not, we cry. "

" You can't control your mind. Why would you want to? "

" I'm half Jewish, half Scottish. It's hard for me to buy anything. "

" At one time there were voiceover artists, now there are celebrity voiceover artists. It's unfortunate because these people need the money less than the voiceover artist. "

" I'll instinctively know that I identify with a character. "

" I drive an electric car. "

" In the U.S., oddly, we have images of men as arrogant and aggressive. "

" I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter. "

" I don't need my phone to play me music. I need it to be a phone and an e-mail thing. "

" If my work was good enough, I would never have to do publicity. "

" What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs. "

" My favorite parts of work as an actor and a director are those unplanned mistakes that do happen, because it's like catching lightning in a bottle. It's the best part of what we do. "

" I enjoy trying to figure out the best way to compliment the picture and not overpower it. "

" I don't want to know what happens in any movie that I go to see. "

" I think there are ways in which shows can pop their heads up a little bit in the morass of everything you can watch. "

" I'm very proud of my Scottish blood. "

" Chemistry is really about two people who like to act together, I think. It's like tennis in the most cliched way. It's like if you hit the ball, they hit the ball back, and they don't hit it into the stands, and they don't put the ball in their pocket and walk off - and they don't argue with the umpire, you know? "

" If you're smart, you'll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there'll always be somebody who's never read a book who'll know twice what you know. "

" It's always a mystery when you're going into a role - 'Here's your wife of 40 years and... action!' How do you create ease or chemistry or whatever is supposed to exist? "

" Just like every show has a tone, every show has different people on it playing different games. I don't say 'game' in a pejorative sense, I just mean, these are different stories that we tell ourselves when we go to work. "