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" I like to believe that everyone is born with the same skill set, and that it is the influences that one comes upon. "

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" I actually think it's harder to play vulnerability, because you're having to delve deeper into portions of your own psyche, what it is that makes you human. "

" I've been a professional actor for almost 40 years. "

" I think now that I'm in the autumn of my life, and I'm getting a chance of having an overview and looking at the shape of how things happen, when things happen, why things happen, I think it was fitting that I spent most of my early career doing mask work, because I just don't think I was that comfortable in my own skin. "

" I feel as though my criteria are based more on how challenging the role is, it doesn't have to fit into any particular profile, is it something that I've never done before, and is it something that I feel like I can really feel challenged and therefore fully engaged in, and that's when the work gets to be the most fun. "

" You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor. "

" I couldn't make it on the swimming team in high school. In fact, I got thrown off the swimming team and was forced to audition for the school play because they had at the audition about 35 girls show up and no boys, so my swimming coach suggested that I might be able to do the drama department more good than I was doing the swimming team. "

" I'm thankful to be breathing, on this side of the grass. Whatever comes, comes. "

" Some of the great characters that I've played had to be transformational. "

" I think in the early part of my career, the roles were so disparate that it never gave anybody an opportunity to understand my essence and what I would be good at doing, as opposed to what I would not be good at doing, so these little moments of beautiful things that were happening to me were consistent, but very few and very far between. "

" Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants, one unexpected event crashing into another, with no pattern or reason, and then you finally reach a point, around my age, where you spend more time than ever looking back. Why did this happen? Look where that led? You see the shape of things. "

" I will not do a role that I don't think I can do, that I'm not interested in, where there's no humanity, that doesn't have any kind of handle for me at all because I know I'll just stink the joint up. "

" Let me put it this way: I definitely need to understand the villains I play. The best cause pain to anesthetize themselves against their own pain. "

" So much of my aesthetic was formed by my dad. "

" I've certainly been very blessed with opportunity. "

" The luxury of television is that you get more than one shot at who you think the guy is that you're playing. "

" Season 4 can be deadly for a show that's been a hit show. "

" You back a big cat into a corner and somebody is going to get bloody. "

" Really, I was such a late bloomer, I really didn't learn how to be me until I was in my late '40s, which is when I started playing roles that were closer to me. "

" Distortions control my self-image, like they do for a lot of us. It's irrational. "

" Fearless people are interesting to watch. "

" I'm kind of one of these guys who wants to play everything once before it's all over. "

" My self-confidence didn't come from my appearance, it came from other things that I did. But certainly not my appearance. "

Self-Confidence

" The thing that's cool about the recording booth is that it's so perfunctory, so cut-to-the-chase. "

" Every job has a unique situational circumstance. "

" It's really disgusting what Hollywood can do to a guy. "

" I'm just trying to make up for lost times, and I have total awareness that when the work is coming it doesn't mean it's going to continue to come, so I'm taking advantage of this phenomenal period that I'm in now, to its fullest. "

" You can change the circumstances but you can never change man's inner nature. "

" Somebody who doesn't care if they live or die is the most dangerous human being on earth. "

" I don't think that I've had a career like anyone else's, but there are hosts and hosts of actors whose careers I admire. "

" I'm continuing to do research into biker culture. "