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" I mean, a lot of time rehearsals are taken up with other things other than preparing a character. "
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" I only have two rules for my newly born daughter: she will dress well and never have sex. "
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" I'm not a very skeptical person. "
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" I don't have a saviour or a royal family. "
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" I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that. "
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" I admire sensible, kind people. They're not often famous. "
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" You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one. "
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" I can see how, given a certain degree of sensitivities, proclivities and rage, I could have ended up differently. "
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" People get up, they go to work, they have their lives, but you'll never see the headlines say, 'Six billion people got along rather well today.' You'll have the headline about the 30 people who shot each other. "
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" I don't really go through a process, it goes through me. "
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" I have at times spoken with my peers and the head of the actors' union about why we're not paid when we appear in, say, a 'TMZ' production, but there seems to be no real interest in combatting it. "
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