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" I remember finding 'Harold and Maude' strangely erotic. I've always had an octogenarian fetish. "

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" No offense to the Canadians, but I believe location is like a character, and authenticity really matters. When you're in a place like New York or D.C., you just can't beat it, and it's so hard to recreate because they are both such distinctive places. I think it's pretty easy these days to tell films that are shot in Toronto. "

" If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character. "

" Actors, you know, they're often awkward people in real life. "

" I am very good with dialects, but the two that I can't do for some reason are the South African and Australian. "

" I didn't think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing and still be somewhat artistic was, god help me, advertising. "

" I'm not that interested in working with impervious people. "

" No, I grew up admiring people who played ice hockey. "

" When you're in a place like New York or D.C. you just can't beat it, and it's so hard to recreate because they are both such distinctive places. "

" You hear different things from different people, and they're all valid: they're all valuable. I think that's what comprises a performance is all those ideas. "

" Everyone says villains are thankless parts, but those are really the best roles. "

" I have Slavic fat pads that make me look like a chipmunk and arched predatory eyebrows. With that, you're not going to get funny. That's why I play so many bad guys. "

" That's really how I got started was doing Shakespeare. When I got out of school, I was lucky enough to meet George Wolfe, who ran The Public Theater. "

" My style was always intuitive. I never used to believe in working on your body. Anything that smacked of vanity to me was bad for your acting, but I learned that wasn't true. "

" You can think about your career or you can think about your job. I like to think about my job. "

" You always have to create the character from the ground up. "

" Hamlet is a remarkably easy role. Physically it's hard because it tends to be about three hours long and you're talking the whole time. But it's a simple role and it adapts itself very well, because the thing about Hamlet is, we all are Hamlet. "

" You should never ask actors about politics. "

" It's finding time for each other. That's the trick to any relationship, you know. Finding time to really be present for each other. "

" I manage to hide in my movies. "

" I'm terrible with big parties. "

" I'm misrepresented as a scary person. I'm not. It's all about my size and my eyebrows. "

" I think New York will always be this incredible international crossroads, and I don't think that will ever change. "

" I struggle with the idea of comparing people's work and art. The notion of giving awards or putting a competitive spin on something that is a relative art form is sort of odd to me. "

" If you fall in love with somebody you're working with, fine, but wait till your project is over. "

" The skill set for hockey is so specific to skating and if you haven't been skating as a kid it's impossible to play - and I wasn't a skater. "

" Theater is consistent. You ride your bike to work. You get most of the day off so you can see your kids. My problem is that after three months, I go mad. One of the reasons I never thought I could do a TV show is that I hate doing the same thing over and over again. "

" I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women. "

" I think it's really, really important to mix it up as an actor, to try to get as much kind of varied experience as you can, not only for your own personal growth as an actor but for the audience to keep them guessing about what you're going to do. "

" My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election. "

" During 'Manchurian Candidate' - that role originated with Laurence Harvey, and I studied everything he did. I would never be able to reproduce that performance, but I got a lot of ideas from watching it. "