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" I have tried to make decisions to work with great directors, with good scripts, and that makes the pickings real slim. "

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" Fatherhood didn't change me in the beginning very much. "

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" I never hurt anybody; I only hurt myself and my family. I never did anything mean to anybody, I was just mean to myself. "

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" I was a wayward kid, a rambunctious and angry teenager, but I found acting as a fifteen-year-old. "

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" I read for 'Reservoir Dogs,' and it got down to me and Buscemi, and Quentin couldn't make up his mind. I really wanted that part, but Buscemi is great in that. I also got really close on 'Gladiator,' but Ridley Scott decided on Russell Crowe, who's perfect in it. "

" I'm essentially a momma's boy with a good education. "

" I like Michael Bay a whole lot. And Jerry Bruckheimer. But I love Ben Affleck as a person, as a director, as an actor. "

" Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you. "

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" I'm a very fortunate actor. I'm blessed to be the position I'm in right now. "

" Whatever it is, if you draw, you paint, you're a carpenter, you play football, the more you do it, you're a journalist, the more stories you write, the more people you interview and navigate your way through these different personalities to get your story, the better you're going to get at it. Acting's no different. "

" I'm from Detroit. I was from a kind of violent neighbourhood. "

" I'm trying to reestablish my career and do great work and give my kids the life they deserve. "

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" It used to be the case that studio executives like Robert Evans, Darryl Zanuck, and David Selznick would put aside money for what they wanted to be great movies regardless of whether they would perform well with the box office. "

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" I try to stop and take a 10-second break and ask myself before I do something: One, is this going to improve my life for my children, or two, will there be a potential for something to go wrong here? "