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" I was held hostage and almost executed by a man who was robbing us in the middle of the night. "

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

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

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

" I don't put the truth in a cage. I try to find a way to release it. "

" I'm not there to tailor the role to me: I'm there to tailor me to the role. That guarantees me something, a precious thing, which is creativity. I'm guaranteed that I will have a creative experience, because I will go to it, not demand that it comes to me. "

" The problem with Google is you have 360 degrees of omnidirectional information on a linear basis, but the algorithms for irony and ambiguity are not there. And those are the algorithms of wisdom. "

" Defeating fear is not a light switch. For most of us, it's daily work. "

" You can only sit on the frustration of wanting to express something for so long. "

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

" I'm not going to party. I'm going to go do something that will make me break a sweat. "

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

" Every single second of extra time to work with other actors has definitely always, for me, paid off for the film. For the project. Every single extra heartbeat you could get, mutually considering the scene, was of benefit. "

" My first cousin, by the way, on my father's mother side was John Marshall Harlan, who was a Supreme Court justice, as was his grandson. And I think a lot of my fight and my work to struggle for fairness and the techniques of theater and in subject matter probably stems in some way from some sense I have of his issues in life. "

" The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done. "

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

" Where did I study? I went to P.S. 6. I went to Collegiate, Middlesex, Tufts, Juilliard. "

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

" Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity. "

" I have never worked with anyone who I hold in higher esteem than Chris Menges. He's an absolute, bona fide, authentic artist. "

" 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. "

" Celebrity is a pathological sickness of the culture. Narcissists on screen being consumed by narcissists off-screen. "

" I was very lucky when I was a kid - I travelled a lot and spent a lot of time in Africa, Asia and Europe. I also chant in Sanskrit. "

" I live in the county where my mother was born and buried. "

" You cut off the capacity for grief in your life, and you cut off the joy at the same time. They both come up through the same tunnel. You don't have one without the other. "

" I have a way of synthesizing. That's what I would encourage any young person to do: take in the ideas, the conflicts, and the world. Watch and listen and live before you go public. "

" There's fear or faith. If you're living by fear, then you're always looking for security. If you're living by faith, then you're always looking for freedom. "

" I'm never happier than when I'm with my family. "

" But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all. "