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

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" I get tired of myself pretty fast. "

" I've very critical of myself, and film has been an adjustment for me. "

" 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. "

" Most conspiracies interest me because of the people who are into them, and the lengths they'll go to expose it or the evidence they think they have. All that stuff. There's just something so beautiful to me about people who sincerely believe we never went to the moon. It gives me so much joy. "

" Am I an anxious guy? I think I have been called upon as an actor a lot to access emotions like that. But I don't really think I am a big worrier. I don't see myself like that. But I guess other people do. Which is maybe worrying in itself. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" As an actor, to have achieved financial stability is amazing. But I always have this weird fear that I'm not going to get any more work; it's about not having enough money. "

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

" I'm pretty easy to get along with on set, but I'm probably hard on myself. "

" Somehow whatever I play ends up being sleazy. "

" 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 have the mentality of a supporting actor. "

" I worked with J. T. Walsh - it was one of the best experiences I ever had - a fantastic actor and a great guy. I was in the last movie that he did: 'The Negotiator.' He died a couple of months after that. He was great. "

" I definitely had a top-notch education. "

" 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. "

" 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 was an English major at Yale, but I did do undergraduate theater there. And I went to the graduate school for acting. "

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" Well, you know, when people say stuff about you, it's always really flattering. But does it mean anything to me? It's not really real to me; there's no reality to it. "

" The white male is one of the easiest things to be. There's always a job; there's always something for you to do. "

" I've got to be the geekiest guy in the world in a lot of ways. I'm like a zeta male. "

" 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 don't consider myself a very interesting person. 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. "

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

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