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" I had almost no money, but with the little bit I had, I got a ticket to see 'That Championship Season' at the Booth theater. "

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" I was involved with some great things in television that I could never have done in film. "

" As actors, we often look for the scene, big moments that say, 'This is why you have to do this role.' "

" I was stuck as a Boomer type in a lot of people's minds. "

" The relationship with producers has always, in my experience, been, uhhh - tense. Challenging. But the actors and crew become like family. You're there all those hours - more than on a movie. You come to depend on each other. "

" One year, I went to Cannes with the film 'The Indian Runner' that Sean Penn directed. Everyone else in the film was all the same height, and on the red carpet, when they were taking photos, none of them would stand next to me, and I totally got it. "

" I want to talk about my very first play, when I was in eighth grade. One day, my English teacher, Mrs. Baker, announced that we were going to read 'On Borrowed Time' out loud in class. I was a mediocre student; I was terrified that she was going to call on me, so I hid my head. "

" In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story. "

" Big Foster is a guy who was in line to be the head of this clan that's been up in the mountains for 200 years, because his father was the leader or the Bren'in, his mother is now Bren'in, and they're kind of royalty, so he was in line to be next. He'd been promised it from a young age, but it just hasn't happened. "

" Everything is interesting to me. "

" I'm acting for the pleasure of it. "

" I'm not sure I always feel like I'm in the seat. Sometimes I'm only holding on by one hand and flying out behind the roller coaster. I don't know anybody who doesn't feel that way. "

" I've done scenes in films that I felt like the performance was better in certain takes, but they couldn't use them because it didn't match what the person was doing when they came around and the camera was on them. "

" In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play. "

" I was getting to the point where I said to my wife, 'I don't think I'll ever be in New York in a play again.' "

" I have a DVD player and I have DVDs, and I have no time to watch any of them. "

" Home wasn't a pleasant place to live, growing up. "

" I don't like talking about myself. I'm not really interested in myself. One of the good things about being a supporting actor is that you get to talk about other people. "

" I've always tried to not let movie, television or theatre be all that my life is about. I've always tried to get involved in the community or my family now I have kids. "

" I've tried to let the work I do speak. "

" I was a teenager and it was tough years for me. Being able to bring myself into a character and live in somebody else's world was so important for me emotionally. I couldn't express things well in my normal life. I was so overwhelmed by my emotions. "

" At 17, I became a member of the Boston Repertory Theatre. I had an opportunity pretty quickly and performed with the theater for six years. "

" To this day, that's what I love the most: finding and playing characters who are out of my experience. "

" Because I'd only done theater, that's really what I thought most of my life would be. I always figured that movies would be a part of it at some point. I didn't know how or when. "

" I gave up planning when our children were born, when I had three children to feed and a roof to keep over our head and all of that. Early in my career, I said I would never do television at all; then I wound up doing nothing but television for 10 years when I did 'St. Elsewhere' and all those TV movies. "

" Part of the problem when I was doing 'How I Learned to Drive' is I would see my kids one night a week for six months, and that was just too hard. We moved to Philadelphia after we lost our house in the earthquake, the '94 Northridge earthquake. "

" I've had the chance to work with Christopher Plummer, one of the great stage and film actors, a couple of times, including on 'Prototype,' the first TV movie I ever did. It was science fiction in the Ray Bradbury sense, written by the famous team who created Columbo, Levinson, and Link. "

" I don't care about the money. I just need, as an actor, to do as many different things that I can to make me feel good about myself. "

" It's great to be able to have your feet in both worlds. I wouldn't want to be just stuck in one or the other. "

" Just in terms of when I got the script, the character I probably liked the least was Big Foster. Because even though he was central to the story and to that world, he was really written to be kind of a brute, a pig, a completely black-and-white bad guy. "

" I'm a very private person. "