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" I try to avoid people as much as possible. They might change my life! "

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" Lead roles are fun, but I'm especially happy other, more colorful supporting stuff has come along. "

" 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. "

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

" The white male is one of the easiest things to be. There's always a job; there's always something for you to do. "

" 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 have the mentality of a supporting actor. "

" The supporting thing can be harder to pop in and out of. The hardest thing is the people who have to come in and play, say, the bartender for a day - that's a lot harder than playing the lead role. You have to pop in and get it right. It's a lot of pressure to just pop in there and fit in and find your footing really fast. "

" 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. "

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

" I wanted to play Zapruder, as he is a man you really don't know much about: a faceless, anonymous figure. "

" 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 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. "

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

" I've never not been proud of the work I was doing; I have nothing I have any shame about. "

" I've got to be the geekiest guy in the world in a lot of ways. I'm like a zeta male. "

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

" Religion features more now in my life than it did when I was a kid - my dad rejected the Catholic church as a young man. I had no religious upbringing, but certainly, Dad was a kind of secular humanist. I don't know if he was an atheist or agnostic. I regret I didn't talk to him about it. "

" I was an English major at Yale, but I did do undergraduate theater there. And I went to the graduate school for acting. "

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

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

" I'm not a big wine guy. And bars, I never go to bars anymore. It's such a drag, man. "

" I definitely had a top-notch education. "

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

" I always would be happy to make a character even more unlikable, but you know, there's a limit and if you go there, you get into a very different kind of movie, man. "

" Do you know Don Coscarelli? 'Bubba Ho-Tep?' That's one of my favorite movies in the world. And I love the 'Phantasm' movies. "

" I really do like a really good science fiction movie and a really good horror movie. Those are the kinds of things I really like. But, I mean, I'm not into sort of like slasher movies. I like a really good science fiction movie, which is hard to do. They don't make many really good ones any more. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I really only started doing film in '97. I mean, before then, I just pretty much did theater. "