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" I need six weeks of rehearsal and women need nine months and it took me 15 years to figure that out. "

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" What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement. "

" I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily. "

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

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

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

" Play is play, fun is fun, and work is work. They're different. I work hard; even if it's supposed to be fun for someone else, it's work for me. "

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

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

" I live in the county where my mother was born and buried. "

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

" 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. "

" I have a way of synthesizing. That's what I would encourage any young person to do: take in the ideas, the conflicts, and the world. Watch and listen and live before you go public. "

" I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process. "

" I've made a couple of films that were a little too wide and non-specific - like 'The Doctor.' "

" 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. "

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" The achievement is appreciation. Your ability to be surprised and awed by beauty! "

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" I haven't planned a reaction on anything... If you do, you've screwed up. "

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

" It was the moment I learned acting is not acting out. After that light went on, I spent the rest of my life trying to figure out how to make other people realize it. "

" 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. "

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" I don't have any artifacts of my profession in my house; the Oscar is in storage. "