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" I think midlife crisis is just a point where people's careers have reached some plateau and they have to reflect on their personal relationships. "

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" And I don't like to work. I only like working when I'm working. "

" When I work, my first relationship with people is professional. "

" Here's the thing, you just have to drive a lot faster, and if you don't get there, we're both fired. "

" I feel that if you really want an Oscar, you're in trouble. It's like wanting to be married - you'll take anybody. If you want the Oscar really badly, it becomes a naked desire and ambition. It becomes very unattractive. "

" Sometimes I snore, like when I get really tired. "

" While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille, died. My father had already died, but I always had some attachment to our big family while she was alive. It seems strange to say now that I felt so lonely, yet I did. "

" One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself. "

" Don't think about your errors or failures; otherwise, you'll never do a thing. "

" All of us kids ended up 'doing Mom.' There are four of us who've tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun, who does liturgical dance. "

" Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time. "

" I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do. "

" Whenever I think of the high salaries we are paid as film actors, I think it is for the travel, the time away, and any trouble you get into through being well known. It's not for the acting, that's for sure. "

" My favorite thing about New York is the people, because I think they're misunderstood. I don't think people realize how kind New York people are. "

" I go home and stay there. I wash and scrub up each day, and that's it. One month I actually grew a moustache, just so I could say that I'd done something. "

" No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life. "

" I think all phases of one's career are serious if you take it seriously no matter if you are doing high profile dramatic pieces or not. "

" I've never made any horrible, horrible movies. If you don't ruin your reputation, you can always get work. "

" Somewhere there's a score being kept, so you have an obligation to live life as well as you can, be as engaged as you can. "

" Golf was my first glimpse of comedy. I was a caddy when I was a kid. I was on the golf course rather than being in lessons, but I can play better now than I could then. "

" The studios don't seem to foster good writing. They're not so interested in that, but they're more interested in what worked most recently. They're definitely very serious about making money, and that's not a wrong thing, but you don't have to make money the same way all the time. "

" We're born alone. We do need each other. It's lonely to really effectively live your life, and anyone you can get help from or give help to; that's part of your obligation. "

" Yeah, I think that's sort of the American way. And it's also the Polish way, it turns out. "

" I throw a Christmas party at my house. It's not really a Christmas party, because I don't want to call it a Christmas party. But let's just say I put a lot of Christmas trees around the house, so it smells good. "

" Parties are only bad when a fight breaks out, when men fight over women or vice versa. Someone takes a fall, an ambulance comes, and the police arrive. If you can avoid those things, pretty much all behaviour is acceptable. "

" When the phone started ringing too many times, I had to take it back to what I can handle. I take my chances on a job or a person as opposed to a situation. I don't like to have a situation placed over my head. "

" I came out of the old Second City in Chicago. Chicago actors are more hard-nosed. They're tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They're self-demanding. "

" People say I'm difficult and sometimes that's a badge of honour. "

" I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job. "