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" I still want to be the guy who can get on the subway and check out the freak on the subway. "

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

" 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. "

" Now, actors get so familiarized with Eastern Europe. I never imagined I'd get as familiar with Budapest and Prague and places like that in my life. "

" I don't feel like I've ever done anything - even 'Big Momma's House' - that I didn't really have some desire to do. "

" Am I an anxious guy? I think I have been called upon as an actor a lot to access emotions like that. But I don't really think I am a big worrier. I don't see myself like that. But I guess other people do. Which is maybe worrying in itself. "

" I've very critical of myself, and film has been an adjustment for me. "

" I don't mind being stereotyped in some way and playing certain kinds of guys, but if I can find something to occasionally get a break from that, that would be nice. And I feel like I manage to. "

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

" I did a movie called 'American Splendor', based on the comic book writer Harvey Pekar. "

" I would probably choose supporting roles if I had to make a choice. It's actually a really hard thing to say. It's all on a role-by-role basis, ultimately. I shouldn't be so quick to say that. I feel like you're given greater license to be colorful and eccentric in supporting roles, and that's interesting to me. "

" I don't mind talking about acting. I don't have anything interesting to say about it, but it's interesting talking about it. "

" There is something pleasurable for an actor to produce something and not be in it. "

" I find that the crazy narcissists, the selfish loons are often the most fun to be around, weirdly. "

" I mean, I'm not going to play the hero of something. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't really have any opinion about my performance in 'Big Momma's House.' "

" Acting can be a really silly thing. It's like playing dress-up. "

" I think one of the great things about acting is the instant gratification: you just get up and start being a part of the story. The immediacy is something you get really addicted to. "

" 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. "

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

" I suppose there must be some way in which I'm compelled to show some side of myself - or of people - that's paranoid and fraught and beleaguered and downtrodden, just as Tom Cruise wants to show that he's terrifyingly upbeat and terrifyingly heroic all the time. "

" Am I really cool? You're telling me I'm cool? Well, that's good to hear. "

" My father died in 1989 before I knew what I was going to do with my life. I had just graduated from college. My mother died just before 'Sideways' came out. She knew I was an actor, but she never saw me become successful. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I like to work - I probably work too much. "