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" I have always been attracted to good scripts and try hard to make characters as believable as possible. That means trying to figure out how they would react to situations, what they eat, think, and feel. "

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" If there is anything I am about, it is I want justice in society. "

" Any of us can sort of say we would do any number of things to feed our children. "

" I come prepared when I come to work. Not just knowing the lines, but I think I know something about what I do. "

" Before I accept a job, I always talk to folks about it. 'Why does he kill these 22 people?' If they say, 'What difference does it make?' I know we have nothing more to talk about. A character has to be three-dimensional. "

" I got a lot of flak; in Texas, football is not only the social thing you must do, but you do it also to prove your manhood. They all couldn't conceive of why I'd want to stop to do 'The Importance of Being Earnest.' "

" I've auditioned five or six times. I'm not very good at it. "

" It's never a matter of career decisions. I don't think in those terms. What matters is whether a role is interesting, if I will enjoy playing it, and if I'm confident I can do a good job. "

" If you're down, it's curse; if you're up, it's a blessing. "

" Everyone has this vision of Jones as a maniacal ogre. Wrong. He was charming, sweet, and a fabulous speaker. "

" There's something about playing the baddies that people like. They're more fun, and people tend to remember them, particularly if you do them well. "

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" I was raised a Democrat, and now I'm an Independent. "

" I've always felt if you followed a real private detective around, it would be boring. "

" I was raised a proper Southern boy. "

" The first 10 years I was a professional actor, I did Shakespeare. "

" We have real cliched ideas of what prison life is like. It is not a happy place. It's a desperate, sad situation. "

" I wanted to be in 'The Emerald Forest.' I chased that one for six months before it all came about. I wanted to work with John Boorman! "

" There are more heroes than cops, FBI agents, and lawyers. "

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Heroes

" The office of the presidency is what's important, no matter who's in it. "

" You don't do classics with a Texas accent. "

" We all want to pretend that there isn't evil in the world. We all want to pretend that there aren't people trying to take us out and different things like that. "

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Want

" Actors have far fewer choices than the public thinks they do. "

" I think I'm pretty politically informed, and I find myself watching Senate hearings on C-SPAN. "

" When 'Deadwood' came along, it was totally like Shakespeare. The long speeches were like soliloquies. If one phrase of a monologue was out of whack, the entire one-page speech didn't work. "

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" I like to think of myself as fairly intellectual. "

" That joy of a creative environment, without any restrictions, is hard to leave. "

" I've got a family, and I love them, and I want them to have the best opportunities in the best country in the world, and I think we have to fight for it. "

" I'm not going to make my living out of beating my head against somebody else. "

" I like to do things that are about relationships, work with quality people, and tell a different kind of story. "

" We're in the business of making films, not striking or anything else. "