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" I think I was born at a time when an American male had so many advantages and opportunities that weren't available to men before or after, just a very brief period. "

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" When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on. "

" You have to do things people see or you don't get to do anything. "

" I grew up in the Midwest, quite far from any ocean or any beach, a million miles. I think for kids who grew up where I did, the idea of California, surfing and beach life was so exotic and glamorous. "

" I know fashion can be intensely goofy, but it is something I've always taken pretty seriously. "

" I only have two rules for my newly born daughter: she will dress well and never have sex. "

" You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting. "

" I probably have more female friends than any man I've ever met. What I like about them is that almost always they're generally mentally tougher, and they're better listeners, and they're more capable of surviving things. "

" I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set. "

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" The most evocative thing to me is probably when a writer and a group of performers can collectively put together something compelling that asks the really simple question: 'How do we live?' "

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" I can see how, given a certain degree of sensitivities, proclivities and rage, I could have ended up differently. "

" If you're too smart it can limit you because you spend so much time thinking that you don't do anything. "

" Actors generally get to do things you probably shouldn't do in real life - well, at least as much as one might like to or be tempted to. Though I suppose a lot of actors just go ahead and do it, don't they? "

" I was never a fanatical movie person. "

" I think with actors, if you just don't set about trying to crush their confidence immediately, you're usually OK. "

" I am inspired by the appearance of a bohemian of the new millennium. "

" I don't mind what I play, really. "

" I brought my first fall/winter line to New York, and it was confiscated by U.S. Customs. They asked, 'What is the value of this?' I said, 'I'm not so good with existential questions.' "

" Theater is so ephemeral, and I love that. "

" Anybody doing something brings something to it. "

" Things are so much global and Americanised. "

" I love Chicago, but in a lot of ways it's a disappointment. You can work there for years and years, and because you're in Chicago, you don't get the recognition. It has some of the best theater in the country, but when they shoot a movie there, they bring in all their actors. "

" I love to watch good actors who surprise and amuse me. "

" Most of the women that I like have a haunted quality - they're sort of like women who live in a haunted house all by themselves. "

" I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid. "

" I know for a fact that a lot of actors are desperate and unhappy if their careers are not progressing at what they think is the correct rate. They just go crazy if they're not working. I don't feel I'd be that way. You can always get a few people together and put on a play. Maybe not in New York or L.A., but in a lot of other towns, you can. "

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" If I had spent as much time in the weight room as I did designing football uniforms, I probably would have had a free college education. "

" I don't really go through a process, it goes through me. "

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" Fashion is chaotic, and it can be an aggravation, too, but it is at its best when it allows you to express yourself. "