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

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" Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge. "

" I'm not going to party. I'm going to go do something that will make me break a sweat. "

" 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. "

" I was a science fiction junkie for a long time. "

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

" You get older, and people start passing away. And so if you're lucky - my mom died very young, for instance, and I have friends who died very young - but the point being that, I think if you're awake, you know you're going to pass on. And that the real treasure in life is the long term - relationships that you really value. "

" I demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either. "

" Rage with panache. "

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

" All I know is that my best work has come out of being committed and happy. "

" 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. "

" For as privileged an actor as I have been, TV as a standard is short shrift. They have to do it so quickly that they don't stop and take a look. They just shoot. So that's one of the reasons I typically stay away from it. I think art is an act of consideration, and if you're not considering, I don't think you're really doing mankind a favor. "

" Fame... it's been a challenge, let's put it that way. It's a privilege and a responsibility, and I'm not sure I carried the responsibility well at times, which is embarrassing. And I've had to look and be disappointed in myself occasionally for how I behaved in some circumstances. "

" Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure. "

" I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process. "

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

" The point is that there are challenges within techniques. When you differentiate in technique, you challenge yourself; you ask yourself the same question in a new way. "

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

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

" People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't. "

" I am so thrilled by the privilege of life, and yet at the same time I know that I have to let it go. "

" 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. "

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

" I generally try to think of what it is I want to express and then find a way of expressing it. "

" The irony is that the more specific you are in the portrayal of character, the more like other people you are. In the same way, the more you think about how alone you are in this life, you realise how much a brother and sister everyone else is. "

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

" We'd like to prearrange our life on all levels. We'd prefer it to be scripted. But it's not. "

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

" Post-adolescence reaches usually into the late 30s. "

" When you are a kid, you are beset by fears, and you think, 'I'll solve the fear by living forever and becoming a movie star.' "