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" I want to see the numbers that prove that show-business marriages are any less successful than other marriages. It's just very public when they fail. "

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" Keep doing what you're doing. Don't be afraid of fame. "

" 'Animal House' was my first movie, so I didn't have anything to compare it to. I was a sight gag more than anything else. So I can't say it was one of those things where your life changes. When the movie came out, I had to ask for the night off at the bar. "

" Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent. "

" Clint Eastwood has always been a hero. "

" I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music. "

" As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive. "

" I've been in silly movies and romantic movies and historic movies. "

" I do better on the first three takes; I won't be better at 20 takes. "

" Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can't go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure is a cancerous way to live. "

" When it happened to us and it was all gone overnight, we said, 'We are in this together, we are healthy, our children are healthy and we can work'. "

" Fame is very much a double-edged sword. "

" With a lot of actors, you've got to chip through the surface to see who the real person is. "

" Doing funny scary is something that is rarely good and rarely works, and it's also something that's incredibly hard to market. "

" There are two things that create opportunities. One is being involved with something that makes money, and the other is winning awards. And the reason that winning the awards creates the opportunities is because it gives the people who are selling the picture the opportunity to make more money. "

" When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song. "

" I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views. "

" 'Kung Fury!' I mean, Jesus, that thing is amazing. "

" With 'Transparent'. When Amazon put 'Transparent' up, along with 'Bosch' and a few other things, I watched them, and I thought it was an interesting exercise. I didn't comment on them, but I was like, 'Okay, this is kind of cool.' "

" I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again - I just have to find a story I want to tell. "

" Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's not good enough. "

Not Good Enough

" We are being choked to death by the amount of plastic that we throw away. It's killing our oceans. It's entering into our bodies in the fish we eat. "

" A moustache is actually the one thing I really can grow. One of the bad parts about my facial hair situation is that I can't grow sideburns. I'm happy to still have my own hair on my head, but I can't grow any sideburns. If you ever see me with sideburns, they're not real. "

" I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible. "

" I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young, hungry actor, it's pretty fun. I was the only one they screen tested. It was an attempt by the director and producer to talk the head of the studio into hiring me because they didn't want me. "

" Somebody with a billion followers can tweet, 'See my movie,' and it can still tank. Followers don't always translate into success because I think people are too savvy. When something takes off, it's because people are connecting to it - not because someone with a lot of followers says to care about it. "

" For my wife and I, for so many years, a lot of our identity was based on being Hollywood haters. We were like, 'We're east-coast. We're New Yorkers. This is just a place that we have to come to, but not by choice.' "

" Being with Kyra is so natural for me; it's the easiest aspect of my life. I know that I don't need a beach or room service to be happy. "

" When I go home, I try to raise my children with honesty and integrity and teach them to take care of the world and of each other. "

" I like to play characters, man. I almost don't even think of them as good guys or bad guys. I know that's a hard thing to realize, but I really just think of them as characters. "

" It does get old to have to always be a monkey in a zoo. I don't know what it's like any more to be anonymous. "