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" I reached a point where I didn't think I was that great. I'm not being humble. I was looking at things and thinking: 'You're not really good in that'. I think I was becoming boring as well as bored. It was nobody's fault except mine - probably - and it might not even be my fault. "

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" Sometimes I don't feel like an actor. Sometimes I speak about it like it was another job, and then I go, 'Wait a minute - I am one!' "

" Chris Nolan is great, but I've never seen any of the 'Batman' movies all the way through. I know they're good. I just have zero interest in those kinds of movies. "

" In our family, my brothers and I shared toys. In other words, just because it was mine didn't mean my brothers and I didn't play with it. "

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" I watch 'Morning Joe' occasionally. I used to watch a lot more than I do now, but I watched it, and all of a sudden, there was this love fest, for crying out loud - this inexplicable love fest one morning - for The Donald. "

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" I took my play very seriously, and I got way, way lost in my play world. "

" When I was in improv workshops or doing stand-up or writing comedy with others, or just doing comedy, I just laughed. Funny was funny; I loved to laugh. I always liked people I found generally funny. "

" Sometimes I do movies that aren't any good, or sometimes I might not be any good in them, or sometimes they don't do very well. "

" Anesthesia is quite remarkable. It's lost time. And you wake up kind of refreshed. "

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" I'm in a business that invites narcissism, self-involvement, and egos being blown out of proportion. "

" Over the years, I think, people - actors, writers, whatever - lose their frame of reference. Their frame of reference is based on somebody else who did this or did that. Performances. So it just becomes a reflection of what already works. Like a warm-up. And that's an invitation to be inauthentic. "

" I'm a very private person. "

" I'd get scripts and think: 'What's the point of this?' "

" David Letterman used to say, 'I wasn't the class clown, but I wrote for him,' and that's exactly it. You want to be known to be funny without having it pointed out. "

" I try to not be or associate with elitists. "

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" I think one reason I really like women and like working with women is because of my sisters. "

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" The vast majority of Pittsburghers don't come from any kind of serious dough. "

" There are certainly producers I hang with and directors I hang with and actors I hang with. "

" I saw some Pixar movies like 'The Incredibles' and thought, 'This is extraordinary. These are some of the best movies I've seen.' "

" If I didn't do 'Batman,' 'Birdman' wouldn't have happened. "

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" In the household in which I was raised, the themes were pretty simple. 'Work hard. Don't quit. Be appreciative, be thankful, be grateful, be respectful. Also, never whine, never complain. And always, for crying out loud, keep a sense of humor.' "

" I guess I'm probably a Method actor; I don't know... I just think of it as staying in the zone. "

" There're only a few photographers I've ever felt really comfortable with. "

" Westerns were always my favorite things when I was little. And it always bothered me when cowboys were too clean in movies, or when they wore their guns like they had an outfit on. It always worked better when a guy looked sweaty and smelly; I hadda believe, I hadda believe that. "

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" One thing my mother had a nose for was inauthenticity. "

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" I find there are a few places where I like to meditate more than in other places. There's a little Catholic church that I go to, and there's another temple I go to - there are certain places where I just feel more comfortable. "