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" I learned how to fire a sniper rifle, which I'm sure will be useful at some point. "

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" I'm pretty easy to get along with on set, but I'm probably hard on myself. "

" I was a big 'Planet of The Apes' fan, so I was really excited about being in it. I had a really good time. I liked wearing all that stuff, and I liked playing the part. "

" The white male is one of the easiest things to be. There's always a job; there's always something for you to do. "

" I have the mentality of a supporting actor. "

" The problem with getting injured when you get older is that it takes longer to recover. "

" It is because my dad died suddenly that I became an actor. I thought, I'm going to make money doing this thing I enjoy. "

" I'm clearly not Brad Pitt, and I'm never going to be Brad Pitt. "

" I find that the crazy narcissists, the selfish loons are often the most fun to be around, weirdly. "

" I was an English major at Yale, but I did do undergraduate theater there. And I went to the graduate school for acting. "

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" I remember when I was at the first showing of 'John Dies at the End' at Sundance, and I was talking to some of the people in the standby crowd who were outside and didn't have tickets. They were just waiting in line to see if they could get in. It was this whole gang of die-hard sci-fi wacko people, and they were just fantastic. "

" I was never the class clown or put on shows at home. I never thought of acting as something I could do with my life. When I was a kid, I used to run around wrapped in toilet paper so I could be the Mummy. But that wasn't a sign that I was dreaming of being an actor. I was just an odd child. "

" I worked with J. T. Walsh - it was one of the best experiences I ever had - a fantastic actor and a great guy. I was in the last movie that he did: 'The Negotiator.' He died a couple of months after that. He was great. "

" I definitely have a tendency to only see the blemishes of things, and see lots of things about my acting that I don't like. "

" Most conspiracies interest me because of the people who are into them, and the lengths they'll go to expose it or the evidence they think they have. All that stuff. There's just something so beautiful to me about people who sincerely believe we never went to the moon. It gives me so much joy. "

" When I did 'Lady in the Water,' the most exciting thing to me was to get to work with Bob Balaban - I couldn't leave the guy alone. I drove him crazy. He's fantastic and a hilarious guy. "

" I've never not been proud of the work I was doing; I have nothing I have any shame about. "

" With 'Duplicity', I was a little bit like, 'This isn't that hard of a movie.' This isn't like some huge brain trust of a movie. You gotta be a little bit awake to follow the plot, but it's really just a kind of light entertainment. It's like those Cary Grant movies, which are not meant to be anything other than diverting. In a nice way. "

" There is something pleasurable for an actor to produce something and not be in it. "

" It's funny: most people who recognize me on the subway and stuff - it's much more they think of me as a funny guy. I get much more of people telling me how much I make them laugh, actually. Which is nice. "

" My father died in 1989 before I knew what I was going to do with my life. I had just graduated from college. My mother died just before 'Sideways' came out. She knew I was an actor, but she never saw me become successful. "

" I would probably choose supporting roles if I had to make a choice. It's actually a really hard thing to say. It's all on a role-by-role basis, ultimately. I shouldn't be so quick to say that. I feel like you're given greater license to be colorful and eccentric in supporting roles, and that's interesting to me. "

" I was more used to acting onstage, for a long time. I don't know, maybe I was temperamentally more suited to stage stuff. And there are things about the stage that I miss in a lot of ways. "

" I like to work - I probably work too much. "

" Growing up, I didn't know where I was headed, except to the grave or maybe to the gutter. I went through wanting to do a lot of things, but acting wasn't one of them. "

" Honestly, I never wanted to be more than a good supporting actor. Really, I enjoy it. "

" I never thought I would have any particular career in movies at all. "

" I consider myself an atheist. My wife is Jewish. And I'm fine with my son being raised as a Jew. He's learning Hebrew and is really into it. I will talk to my own son about my atheism when the time is right. But there's a great tradition of Jewish atheism, there are no better atheists in the world than the Jews. "

" I get tired of myself pretty fast. "