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" I find that the crazy narcissists, the selfish loons are often the most fun to be around, weirdly. "

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" 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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" It is because my dad died suddenly that I became an actor. I thought, I'm going to make money doing this thing I enjoy. "

" Religion features more now in my life than it did when I was a kid - my dad rejected the Catholic church as a young man. I had no religious upbringing, but certainly, Dad was a kind of secular humanist. I don't know if he was an atheist or agnostic. I regret I didn't talk to him about it. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 was a big 'Planet of The Apes' fan, so I was really excited about being in it. I had a really good time. I liked wearing all that stuff, and I liked playing the part. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I suppose there must be some way in which I'm compelled to show some side of myself - or of people - that's paranoid and fraught and beleaguered and downtrodden, just as Tom Cruise wants to show that he's terrifyingly upbeat and terrifyingly heroic all the time. "

" I wanted to play Zapruder, as he is a man you really don't know much about: a faceless, anonymous figure. "

" 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 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. "

" Sometimes, I think I may be more recognizable because I'm character-looking. "

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

" 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. "

" If I play a more aggressive, stronger guy, I often go through my day feeling a bit better than when I play somebody who's not. "

" I learned how to fire a sniper rifle, which I'm sure will be useful at some point. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You are absolutely free to describe me as a turtle or something. "

" I don't feel like I've ever done anything - even 'Big Momma's House' - that I didn't really have some desire to do. "

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

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