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" I think as an actor, you're constantly putting yourself out there, and a lot of times failing - and failing in front of a bunch of people - and sometimes you have a good moment and something clicks. "

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" I would love to close my eyes and see myself with my girlfriend when we're 99 years old and I have a pipe and she's knitting a sweater, and I hope that's the way it goes. I think it's a challenge every day. "

" Doing something like 'Damages,' I played a character with post-traumatic stress. I was playing with sleep deprivation. I was not sleeping; I stayed up for three days at a time, drinking Red Bull. I would get shaky and tired and hyper. "

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" A lot of acting, as I grew up wanting to do, is kind of like magic... I'm not comparing myself to him in the least bit, but if you knew what Daniel Day-Lewis was doing every step of the way and what he was eating, I don't think when he popped up as Lincoln we would quite believe it. "

" I'm from another time period. E-mailing sometimes, for me, is difficult. "

" When you do a play, you do it for a couple months, and it just gets in your bones. You can learn about somebody that way. "

" I love 'Boardwalk Empire.' I really love that world. I love that style. I love all the actors on it. "

" As corny as it sounds, I'm often pinching myself going, 'What great opportunities and great parts and great people that I've gotten to work with.' "

" I'm lucky to just be a working actor. There are so many great actors out there and I'm just lucky to have gotten work. "

" It's always flattering when somebody you really respect and like wants you to be involved in their project - let alone writes a part with your voice in mind. "

" Yeah, I think everybody has the crises of questioning themselves at some point or other in their lives. Is this where I should live? The job I should have? The girl I should be dating? Is this the friend I should have? "

" Ultimately, making movies, if you don't have a big star, it's hard to do. Or if it's not a star director. "

" I don't have much interest in gingerbread houses - except in eating them. "

" What's monotonous about being an actor and often makes me want to throw in the towel or drive a car off a bridge is the auditioning - the waiting around. "

" If you're playing your character and you're running into all these people who know who you are and treat you in a way that doesn't pertain at all to the character, it takes you out of it more, so when you're alone in a city where people don't know you, you can kind of pretend even more and get into the head space of where you need to be. "

" I think Aaron Sorkin is like Shakespeare. When you go through it, there is a rhythm and clues all over the place of how it should be played. "

" I'm not a cook. I don't think I ever will be. "