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

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

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

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

" I very much prefer the balance in a scene to standing out and so you have to make a decision. "

" You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" We get so intellectual that we forget that we're physical creatures. "

" The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being. "

" I am not a famous person at home - I'm just a guy here. I'm a father, I'm a companion, I'm a human being. I am not a public figure in my house; I am not a celebrity. I am not a famous person to myself - I am just a guy. "

" Rage with panache. "

" 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 not there to tailor the role to me: I'm there to tailor me to the role. That guarantees me something, a precious thing, which is creativity. I'm guaranteed that I will have a creative experience, because I will go to it, not demand that it comes to me. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" If you don't exercise, you don't stay strong. I like to work with talented people. "

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

" I didn't study interviews. I studied acting. "

" Woody Allen asked me to improv once. I said no. "

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