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" I want to be a villain with steel hands or something. I want to be the crazy, world-domination-obsessed villain. I would love to be a Bond villain. "

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" This whole business feels kind of intense, like a bad fit. Round peg, square hole. But whatever, I'll take it. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I was a big 'Planet of The Apes' fan, so I was really excited about being in it. I had a really good time. I liked wearing all that stuff, and I liked playing the part. "

" I definitely had a top-notch education. "

" I'm clearly not Brad Pitt, and I'm never going to be Brad Pitt. "

" 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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" In a weird way, I like to find the quirkiness in ordinary things. I like to find what is ordinary in quirky people. "

" It'd be disingenuous to say I don't like attention - I'm an actor for God's sake - and it's flattering and all, but attention was never my big goal. I just like to work and have a good time. "

" 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. "

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

" I like playing weird, kind of shady people. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

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

" I was the youngest child and got a lot more freedom than my brother and sister. I used to wander, doing my own thing under the radar, but I didn't get in bad, bad trouble. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I'm pretty easy to get along with on set, but I'm probably hard on myself. "

" I was more used to acting onstage, for a long time. I don't know, maybe I was temperamentally more suited to stage stuff. And there are things about the stage that I miss in a lot of ways. "

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

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

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