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" I really only started doing film in '97. I mean, before then, I just pretty much did theater. "

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" I was an English major at Yale, but I did do undergraduate theater there. And I went to the graduate school for acting. "

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" As an actor, to have achieved financial stability is amazing. But I always have this weird fear that I'm not going to get any more work; it's about not having enough money. "

" Growing up, I didn't know where I was headed, except to the grave or maybe to the gutter. I went through wanting to do a lot of things, but acting wasn't one of them. "

" I was never the class clown or put on shows at home. I never thought of acting as something I could do with my life. When I was a kid, I used to run around wrapped in toilet paper so I could be the Mummy. But that wasn't a sign that I was dreaming of being an actor. I was just an odd child. "

" I'm clearly not Brad Pitt, and I'm never going to be Brad Pitt. "

" I definitely have a tendency to only see the blemishes of things, and see lots of things about my acting that I don't like. "

" Honestly, I never wanted to be more than a good supporting actor. Really, I enjoy it. "

" I wanted to play Zapruder, as he is a man you really don't know much about: a faceless, anonymous figure. "

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" I definitely had a top-notch education. "

" I was more used to acting onstage, for a long time. I don't know, maybe I was temperamentally more suited to stage stuff. And there are things about the stage that I miss in a lot of ways. "

" Do you know Don Coscarelli? 'Bubba Ho-Tep?' That's one of my favorite movies in the world. And I love the 'Phantasm' movies. "

" I worked with J. T. Walsh - it was one of the best experiences I ever had - a fantastic actor and a great guy. I was in the last movie that he did: 'The Negotiator.' He died a couple of months after that. He was great. "

" Lead roles are fun, but I'm especially happy other, more colorful supporting stuff has come along. "

" Most conspiracies interest me because of the people who are into them, and the lengths they'll go to expose it or the evidence they think they have. All that stuff. There's just something so beautiful to me about people who sincerely believe we never went to the moon. It gives me so much joy. "

" It is because my dad died suddenly that I became an actor. I thought, I'm going to make money doing this thing I enjoy. "

" Sometimes, I think I may be more recognizable because I'm character-looking. "

" I don't think film actors need training, really, but I needed any help I could get. "

" I learned how to fire a sniper rifle, which I'm sure will be useful at some point. "

" I consider myself an atheist. My wife is Jewish. And I'm fine with my son being raised as a Jew. He's learning Hebrew and is really into it. I will talk to my own son about my atheism when the time is right. But there's a great tradition of Jewish atheism, there are no better atheists in the world than the Jews. "

" Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background. "

" The 'Planet of the Apes' movies made me wanna - probably unconsciously - be an actor. Seriously. And The Mummy - and 'Hammer horror' movies. 'Fantastic.' I loved stuff like that, and that stuff probably did more than anything to make me wanna do it. "

" This whole business feels kind of intense, like a bad fit. Round peg, square hole. But whatever, I'll take it. "

" If I play a more aggressive, stronger guy, I often go through my day feeling a bit better than when I play somebody who's not. "