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" I like to work. I'm glad; I'm privileged to have work. "

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" I don't put the truth in a cage. I try to find a way to release it. "

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

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

" Rage with panache. "

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

" I am constantly asked, 'What's the difference between acting in the theater and acting in film?' The only answer I can give is the space - you adapt to the space. But acting is acting. "

" My greatest offering is my concept. It isn't my face. "

" The thrill of acting is the discovery part, so it all changes, but it has to change in a way that fits what is written. You can't just wander off and get interested in your own tangent. "

" It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream. "

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

" I listen to XM radio because I can get so many overseas news stations. "

" 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.' "

" I'm coming from the notion that acting is an art. It is not a business. It is about building characters, not about selling personalities. "

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

" David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists. "

" If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character. "

" I'm never happier than when I'm with my family. "

" Where did I study? I went to P.S. 6. I went to Collegiate, Middlesex, Tufts, Juilliard. "

" There's fear or faith. If you're living by fear, then you're always looking for security. If you're living by faith, then you're always looking for freedom. "

" Every single second of extra time to work with other actors has definitely always, for me, paid off for the film. For the project. Every single extra heartbeat you could get, mutually considering the scene, was of benefit. "

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

" I have a film I want to direct. Gena Rowlands was going to do it with me a long time ago. It's about an older woman who's running a ranch in the west the old fashioned way. "

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

" You can only sit on the frustration of wanting to express something for so long. "

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

" I am just as comfortable in Britain and France as I am in America... but nowhere is perfect. "

" 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. "

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