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

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" I want to always find new ways of reinventing myself. "

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

" When you start a movie, it's not like other kinds of work that you have when you know your boss for years or colleagues for years. You're meeting everyone, mostly, for the first time. You have to get comfortable with those people so you can perform, because the first thing that is going to shut you down is any kind of anxiety. "

" I've really had good luck working with younger actors. Every younger actor that I have worked with has always been really on top of their game and fascinating to watch. "

" Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island. "

" To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new. "

" And what I like about it is it makes me happy and I think it makes a lot of people happy to go to the movies and to not think about the problems of the day or the problems of tomorrow or the yesterday and just go on for the ride and have the fun of losing oneself in a fantasy. "

" There is a misperception, if you will, in critical response or even in Hollywood, that I can only do exaggerated characters. Or what they would call over-the-top performances. Well, this is completely false. "

" I think what makes people fascinating is conflict, it's drama, it's the human condition. Nobody wants to watch perfection. "

" Hollywood didn't know if I was an actor or a nut or if I was this crazy character I was playing. I had developed an image of being a little bit unusual, different and wild. "

" 'Knowing' is one of those movies where you're going to get the spectacle, and you're going to have the entertainment in the grand science fiction tradition. But also, it will perhaps stimulate some discussion to help you sort out on your own where you might choose to go in terms of your own needs. Now, I say that without preaching. "

" Snakes are sometimes perceived as evil, but they are also perceived as medicine. If you look at an ambulance, there's the two snakes on the side of the ambulance. The caduceus, or the staff of Hermes, there's the two snakes going up it, which means that the venom can also be healing. "

" My house is basically a trailer. I live a circus lifestyle. I'm always moving. It's not always easy for people that live with me, but that's the path I chose. "

" I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhythms of the English language and the mannerisms of the English speech seems to work effortlessly with William Shakespeare, but when Americans do it, something seems stuck. "

" The movies I cannot go without and that I watch annually are 'A Clockwork Orange,' 'Scarface' and 'Fantasia.' "

" 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. "

" I try to do as many stunts as they'll let me do. I think it's important for an audience to feel that the actor's really doing it. "

" I loved 'Fantasia' as a kid because it filled me with wonder, enchantment and awe. It was my first real introduction into classical music. It was totally inspiring to me. "

" I would like to hook up with one of the great Japanese filmmakers, like the master that made 'Ringu,' and I would like to take 'The Wicker Man' to Japan, except this time he's a ghost. "

" I know there's been a lot that's been said about animated voice work, as though it's 'you can do this in your jeans and there's no camera and no pressure there. It's no big deal. It's easy.' The truth is, it's really a great test: how deep is your ability is to access your imagination? "

" When I act, I hear it like music. In my head, I hear the dialogue like music. "

" I like movies where you feel like you're going into another world, and no matter how many times you watch it, you're gonna see something new in that world. That level of detail really inspires me. "

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

" I think I jump around more when I'm alone. "

" 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 have a love / hate relationship with the city of New Orleans, which is the strongest kind of relationship. "

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

" Everything we do impacts someone else's life. "