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" I have a way of synthesizing. That's what I would encourage any young person to do: take in the ideas, the conflicts, and the world. Watch and listen and live before you go public. "

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" It's been a long comeback. Things were pretty dark for me. But I have a faith now, and it saves my day. I was angry with God for a long time because I was unhappy with me. I hadn't learned to make the distinction between God and my parents. But there's a peace now. In the end, I got sick and tired of being sick and tired. "

" I like to work. I'm glad; I'm privileged to have work. "

" I haven't planned a reaction on anything... If you do, you've screwed up. "

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" The thing is David is also aware of everything and it's not like you're going somewhere the director is not. "

" But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all. "

" The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done. "

" I listen to XM radio because I can get so many overseas news stations. "

" I'm never happier than when I'm with my family. "

" I had great qualms about playing a man who was living. I've never met Walt McCandless, and I never will. "

" I didn't study interviews. I studied acting. "

" I'm an actor. I play roles in films and theaters. I don't act out, and I don't play people. "

" I don't want my children to have to wade through the crap to get to the cream, you know. I want them to be aware that I struggled to live with and tell my truth, and that it was a decent thing. "

" I was held hostage and almost executed by a man who was robbing us in the middle of the night. "

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Night

Who

" Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity. "

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" If you don't exercise, you don't stay strong. I like to work with talented people. "

" I was very lucky when I was a kid - I travelled a lot and spent a lot of time in Africa, Asia and Europe. I also chant in Sanskrit. "

" It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream. "

William Hurt

Because

Seems

" You cut off the capacity for grief in your life, and you cut off the joy at the same time. They both come up through the same tunnel. You don't have one without the other. "

" I don't put the truth in a cage. I try to find a way to release it. "

" The thrill of acting is the discovery part, so it all changes, but it has to change in a way that fits what is written. You can't just wander off and get interested in your own tangent. "

" Play is play, fun is fun, and work is work. They're different. I work hard; even if it's supposed to be fun for someone else, it's work for me. "

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Work

Fun

" You can only sit on the frustration of wanting to express something for so long. "

" The enemies of acting are mood and attitude and other general homogenized disruptive entities. Whereas acting is about action - doing - and unless you can figure out a way to craft in an imaginative reality to which you don't submit, you're going to be out of control. You'll flip out. The job is to be surprised. "

" I've made a couple of films that were a little too wide and non-specific - like 'The Doctor.' "

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" I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily. "

" Defeating fear is not a light switch. For most of us, it's daily work. "

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" The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact. "

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Existence

Most

" I grew up in the South Pacific. Basically, my brothers were Guamanian. I spoke words of Guamanian long before I spoke words of English, and so I've seen a lot. You know, I've traveled in places where people don't have the benefits of American life. And so I've seen a lot of stuff. "

" I have never worked with anyone who I hold in higher esteem than Chris Menges. He's an absolute, bona fide, authentic artist. "