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" I was a science fiction junkie for a long time. "

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" People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't. "

" Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study. "

" The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being. "

" Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful. "

" The point is that there are challenges within techniques. When you differentiate in technique, you challenge yourself; you ask yourself the same question in a new way. "

" I'm coming from the notion that acting is an art. It is not a business. It is about building characters, not about selling personalities. "

" I had great qualms about playing a man who was living. I've never met Walt McCandless, and I never will. "

" The thing is David is also aware of everything and it's not like you're going somewhere the director is not. "

" We get so intellectual that we forget that we're physical creatures. "

" Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge. "

" Woody Allen asked me to improv once. I said no. "

" My greatest offering is my concept. It isn't my face. "

" For as privileged an actor as I have been, TV as a standard is short shrift. They have to do it so quickly that they don't stop and take a look. They just shoot. So that's one of the reasons I typically stay away from it. I think art is an act of consideration, and if you're not considering, I don't think you're really doing mankind a favor. "

" I am not a famous person at home - I'm just a guy here. I'm a father, I'm a companion, I'm a human being. I am not a public figure in my house; I am not a celebrity. I am not a famous person to myself - I am just a guy. "

" I listen to XM radio because I can get so many overseas news stations. "

" I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily. "

" I am constantly asked, 'What's the difference between acting in the theater and acting in film?' The only answer I can give is the space - you adapt to the space. But acting is acting. "

" The funnel of deep feeling and profound satisfaction in life comes from the capacity to feel. "

" I didn't study interviews. I studied acting. "

" Rage with panache. "

" It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream. "

" Fame... it's been a challenge, let's put it that way. It's a privilege and a responsibility, and I'm not sure I carried the responsibility well at times, which is embarrassing. And I've had to look and be disappointed in myself occasionally for how I behaved in some circumstances. "

" We'd like to prearrange our life on all levels. We'd prefer it to be scripted. But it's not. "

" It's been a long comeback. Things were pretty dark for me. But I have a faith now, and it saves my day. I was angry with God for a long time because I was unhappy with me. I hadn't learned to make the distinction between God and my parents. But there's a peace now. In the end, I got sick and tired of being sick and tired. "

" I'm an actor. I play roles in films and theaters. I don't act out, and I don't play people. "

" The achievement is appreciation. Your ability to be surprised and awed by beauty! "

" All I know is that my best work has come out of being committed and happy. "

" I've been delighted by Cannes and Toronto but I keep saying I don't know how good we're going to be received in America because that's where it's most challenging. "

" I need six weeks of rehearsal and women need nine months and it took me 15 years to figure that out. "

" What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement. "