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" I was about 26 or 27 and it was imperative that I make a living right away and it's hard to make a living on stage, so I started in television and film. "

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" One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you're an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too. "

" I think of myself as more of a comic person. I don't know about a comic actor. "

" People think celebrities don't have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It's like you've traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country. "

" I really enjoy taking an outdoor shower. "

" Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet. "

" I never thought about the actors on television or film, like what kind of life they had. "

" Sex is great until you die, but it's never as great as it was when you were a kid, when it was a mystery. "

" I love animals and I love working with them because they don't lie. "

" On the one hand, people think they own kids; they feel that they have the right to tell the kids what to do. On the other hand, people envy kids. We'd like to be kids our whole lives. Kids get to do what they do. They live on their instincts. "

" Just like every show has a tone, every show has different people on it playing different games. I don't say 'game' in a pejorative sense, I just mean, these are different stories that we tell ourselves when we go to work. "

" I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms; they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that. "

" Most journalists expect me to answer all their questions about aliens and spaceships. "

" I envisioned that as my life: staying in academia to make a living and then taking summers off to write my novels. "

" I'm very proud of my Scottish blood. "

" You're raising a kid and you give it food and shelter and, most importantly, you give it the feeling that it's special. I think people react to celebrities like that - I mean, they treat celebrities like children. "

" I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well. "

" I don't know how anybody gets better at anything aside from doing it. "

" I wanted to write plays. I was at Yale graduate school at the time for English literature, not for acting... I liked the idea of collaboration, and I thought if I'm gonna write plays, I should learn something about speaking the lines that I might try to write. "

" I'm not really a gamer. "

" If my work was good enough, I would never have to do publicity. "

" Generally, I don't like to walk out of a movie. It's like a relationship - you want to see it to the end; otherwise, you won't know if you left early or not. "

" In high school and college, I was an athlete. "

" What strikes me is that 'XIII' looks like a movie. The shot making is movie-like, which is kind of fun - the kind of playful action movie shot making is pretty, is pretty good. What's also great about this game is its style and interesting story-line. "

" I don't think I'd ever be cruel to an animal. "

" Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it. "

" I still feel like I haven't grown up. "

" I've made so many mistakes. But it is my feeling that you learn from failures, so I welcome them as often as I can. "

" The worst thing a man can admit is 'I'm not 100 percent fulfilled by my family.' But it doesn't mean he doesn't love his family. I love my family, but I still want to work; I still want challenges. It took me a while to fall in love with the responsibility of family life, and it was a deep thing when I did. "