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" I only pray when it suits my own needs. I'm not proud about that. "

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" In acting, there's a type of courage you're recognized for all the time. You lose 100 pounds and play a guy with AIDS, and you get rewarded. But, in life, doing what is courageous is quiet, and no one knows about it. Courage is someone making sacrifices for their family or making selfless decisions for what they hope or feel. "

" I was a child of the '80s. "

" I'm a political junkie. "

" In comedy you have to be willing to not take yourself seriously, you know? I take comedy really seriously, and so to take comedy seriously, you must not, you cannot, ever take yourself seriously. "

" Temperamentally, Sam and I are very much alike. He's a lawyer, my father's a lawyer, and I always wanted to play one. On so many levels the role just felt right. I fell in love with it as I would a woman. "

" When you're writing personal stories, you have to be totally uncompromising - to the extent that you can be - about yourself. I know that if I am uber-uncompromising with myself, that gives me some latitude to write about others. "

" It's a little bit of a 'if you can't beat 'em - join 'em' mentality for me when I think about Twitter. "

" I couldn't have gotten sober without rehab because I needed the science. "

" Directors are not worried about casting beautiful women, but they are not sure that they want to cast great-looking men. My looks have prevented people from seeing my work. "

" The minute you start making calculations about what people will think of you as a person based on your work as an actor, you're on the road to becoming a bad one. "

" There is a movie called 'My Dog Skip,' starring my 'Outsiders' costar Diane Lane. I do not recommend it. If you have a child, particularly one about to leave home, watching this film is to be emotionally waterboarded. "

" My life and the lives of many across the world have been deeply affected by lymphoma. "

" I love anything by Joan Didion. Incidentally, she was one of the local moms when I was growing up in Point Dume. She always reminded me a little bit of my mother, so I feel a great affinity. I love the precision of Didion's writing. There's a construction and a craftsmanship to her sentences that's imbued with so much emotion. "

" Children change you. They really do. "

" My dad is an attorney. I've always been interested in it. My sons are probably going to law school. "

" I like the nexus of Bollywood and Hollywood. I'm actually shocked that there isn't more of a meld between our two industries. "

" Eleven days before 9/11, I was on a plane with the 9/11 hijackers who were carrying out a dry run. "

" I've said before that the common perception that all good actors should be good liars is exactly the opposite; only bad actors lie when they act. "

" I have had a lot of blessed, interesting things happen to me and have bumped up against some amazing people. "

" I'm no genius, but I'm real smart in one area - I picked the right mate. "

" When I got sober, that was 1990. "

" In spite of being professionally gregarious, in my nonpaid hours I'm a bit of a hermit. After being around a crew of fifty people for twelve hours a day on a film set, I really like my alone time, and as always, I abhor small talk. "

" If you're telling a story, and somebody is going to come out badly, it better be you. "

" We should all be so lucky in our lives to create things that we're still talking about 25 years later. "

" I have been looking forward to this age of my life for a long time. In my twenties, I marked the days on the calendar - I was sick of playing high-school kids. "

" For sure, without question, the writing is better on TV pound for pound than movies because the businesses have changed so much. So all the great writers would rather work for TV, and they do. "

" I feel pressures to stay relevant. To stay interesting and interested. To stay at the top of my game and expand. "

" It's funny what actors take issue with. Some won't do parts where animals are in jeopardy; some won't ever play anyone remotely unlikable - 'Heroes only, please.' Some won't do violence. I have no such qualms. "

" I look at it like this: that if Shakespeare were alive today, he would have written two or three plays about the Kennedy family, and actors would traditionally play JFK like they Hamlet or King Lear. They just would. I mean, people have played JFK, and they'll play him long after I have. "

" My thing is personal freedoms: freedoms for the individual to love whom they want, do with what they want. In fact, I want the government out of almost everything. "