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" I was concerned about filling my life up with something important to me. To me, it was just necessary. "

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" I feel like my place in this industry is still progressing. "

" If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later. "

" If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me. "

" I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things. "

" I actually have a decent singing voice, and I've never been able to sing onscreen. I'd love to do a musical. "

" I have some property. We have a few acres, so I like working on it, whether it's cutting stuff down, cleaning stuff up, building steps, or working with concrete, you know, brickwork. "

" I bought the rights to this book, 'The Ploughmen,' by a Montana writer named Kim Zupan, and I've written the screenplay, and I really feel pretty strong about it. It's really hauntingly beautiful. It's got some suspense and great drama, but it's a real character thing. "

" I'm not an activist per se, but I have strong feelings about things. People can jump on celebrities for being ill-informed or naive, but I've got a right to say what I believe. "

" I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do. "

" You look at a guy like Lance Armstrong, and you have to be inspired. I sat next to Kirk Douglas the other day, and he's inspiring for fighting through his stroke. "

" I had some really dear friends who died from AIDS-one in particular. His family wasn't around and he didn't have many friends. I spent a lot of time with him in his later days. "

" Pollock said several times that he couldn't separate himself from his art. Not knowing much about modern art when I began to read about him, I was much more his persona - his struggles as a human being - that was interesting to me. "

" There's, what, 300 films at the Telluride or Toronto or something. How many are those people gonna see? How many of those are actually gonna be in a theater, you know? You know, as an actor, I mean, I learned a long time ago that the fulfillment in this business is the doing of it because you can't rely on anything coming out. "

" For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done. "

" I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems! "

" I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job. "

" One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself. "

" You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting. "

" If I've been an architect of my own career in any fashion, one thing that I've attempted to do is not get typecast, in order to be able to play all different kind of characters. I think I've done a pretty good job of that over the years. "

" In the past 10 years, I've looked at life as this Pollock stuff. And now I'm almost in the post Pollock phase. "

" When I decided to direct, never having done that before, is something I'm very proud of. "

" I made career decisions that came from the part of me who wanted to shun the limelight. "

" It's hard to see a film that's been made from a book that you really loved because it's such a different experience. "

" I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing. "

" I feel pretty comfortable with who I am. After a while, if you're not, it's like, what are you hoping for? "

" Seeing what happens when you rip yourself open is what your job is all about. "

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" I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people. "