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" I was the first one in the family, on either side, to go to college - much less graduate school. "

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" There's something about playing the baddies that people like. They're more fun, and people tend to remember them, particularly if you do them well. "

" That joy of a creative environment, without any restrictions, is hard to leave. "

" It's never a matter of career decisions. I don't think in those terms. What matters is whether a role is interesting, if I will enjoy playing it, and if I'm confident I can do a good job. "

" Sometimes, I feel like directors look at me and say, 'I want to put that boy in the jungle. I want to hurt him.' "

" There are more heroes than cops, FBI agents, and lawyers. "

" I like to do things that are about relationships, work with quality people, and tell a different kind of story. "

" I come prepared when I come to work. Not just knowing the lines, but I think I know something about what I do. "

" I wanted to be in 'The Emerald Forest.' I chased that one for six months before it all came about. I wanted to work with John Boorman! "

" I was raised a Democrat, and now I'm an Independent. "

" Actors have far fewer choices than the public thinks they do. "

" I've been fortunate in my career to have the opportunity to pick and choose the parts I play. I've also been lucky to always be involved with quality actors, quality directors, quality writers. "

" When I'm out there, it's just me. Nobody's controlling me, and I can do whatever I want to do. I'm my own man. "

" I was raised a proper Southern boy. "

" Everyone has this vision of Jones as a maniacal ogre. Wrong. He was charming, sweet, and a fabulous speaker. "

" When 'Deadwood' came along, it was totally like Shakespeare. The long speeches were like soliloquies. If one phrase of a monologue was out of whack, the entire one-page speech didn't work. "

" We're in the business of making films, not striking or anything else. "

" I like to think of myself as fairly intellectual. "

" I'm not going to make my living out of beating my head against somebody else. "

" Any of us can sort of say we would do any number of things to feed our children. "

" One thing that's thematically consistent in 'Sin City' is that all the performances seem to be of the same genre, like we're singing the same song. "

" We have real cliched ideas of what prison life is like. It is not a happy place. It's a desperate, sad situation. "

" If there is anything I am about, it is I want justice in society. "

" If I rob a gas station, I'm going to get 15 years. If I steal $400 million on Wall Street, I start plea-bargaining. "

" I've had presidents in my lifetime - and I'm old enough to have seen several - that I really detested, but they're still my president. I've had presidents that I've really liked. "

" The first 10 years I was a professional actor, I did Shakespeare. "

" I think I'm pretty politically informed, and I find myself watching Senate hearings on C-SPAN. "

" I have always been attracted to good scripts and try hard to make characters as believable as possible. That means trying to figure out how they would react to situations, what they eat, think, and feel. "

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" I'm really enjoying the character now, but I don't want to just be Philip Marlowe. I wouldn't mind playing him every couple of years, perhaps, as a kind of open franchise - you know? "