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" If I didn't do 'Batman,' 'Birdman' wouldn't have happened. "

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" I liked going to Catholic school. "

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" I'm just shocked at how blatantly shallow people are sometimes. "

" Day to day and doing the work and getting to that honest point - that, for me, is always about - and always will be as long as I do this - refining and refining and refining and refining the truth... constantly being as truthful and honest and raw and real as you can be. "

" I'm just shocked and thankful that I've gotten away with everything - experimenting here, trying at this, failing at that, being good in some things, not so good in others. It's kind of amazing that people are still sticking by me. When they come up to me in the street, I just want to write them all cheques. "

" No, I don't see many movies. I don't even see my own movies. "

" Have I ever been to a party with a ton of famous people in it? Yes, several times, so I guess that's a Hollywood lifestyle. "

" People, when they talk or write about comedy, they don't really get it. "

" I'd get scripts and think: 'What's the point of this?' "

" One thing my mother had a nose for was inauthenticity. "

" Leaving a lot of movie sets, I've gone home and said, 'How come my hands are clean?' I should finish something and go home with dirt in my fingernails, because then you really feel that you've done something. "

" I really believed that Batman had the potential to be one of the coolest guys in cinema. "

" I remember my mom threatening me, half-serious: 'You know what? I should take you to Pittsburgh and put you in dance lessons just to keep you occupied.' Well, that brought everything to a screeching halt. 'Jeeze, dance lessons.' In retrospect, it would have been awesome, but then, 'Ugh, dancing - dancing's for sissies.' "

" In our family, my brothers and I shared toys. In other words, just because it was mine didn't mean my brothers and I didn't play with it. "

" Show business is, essentially, a fear-based industry. "

" I didn't go to church all the time, just 'cause I was an antsy kid. "

" I get kinda self-conscious. I don't want to know about my eyebrows. I'm born with them. "

" I'm usually pretty good in front of a live audience. I usually like that. "

" I've proven I'm courageous. I'm gutsier than anybody; I've got a better imagination than anybody; I'm essentially more creative than any other actor I know, and I've proven I take risks. I don't think I need to prove anything to myself any more. "

" Westerns were always my favorite things when I was little. And it always bothered me when cowboys were too clean in movies, or when they wore their guns like they had an outfit on. It always worked better when a guy looked sweaty and smelly; I hadda believe, I hadda believe that. "

" All actors are my brothers and my sisters. It ain't cool to compare or disparage them. It ain't polite. "

" There's this thin line between knowing something is going to be really hard and saying, 'Yeah, you know, but I still gotta see if I can pull it off.' "

" I hope this doesn't sound pretentious, but I very often like the way Europeans make movies. I think sometimes that don't they care about having to clean certain things. "

" I've got six wonderful brothers and sisters. "

" The first feature film I did, when I did 'Night Shift,' I improvised quite a bit because I would improvise at the audition, so sometimes I would return to the original lines, and then when I was on set, I would improvise even more. "

" I'm the seventh child of George and Leona Douglas, and I don't ever remember a time when my father didn't work two jobs. When my mother was going to the grocery, or going to Mass, or trying to take care of seven kids in a run-down farmhouse. "

" I never wanted to play the short game. "

" In high school, I was too shy to perform. It's one thing to get laughs from your family, to be funny at parties and in class. It's another thing to get up on the stage. "

" For years, I'd go to the movies and see guys doing Boston accents and think, 'Oh please, God, I hope I never have to do that.' "

" There comes a point in your life when you realize how quickly time goes by, and how quickly it has gone. Then it really speeds up exponentially. With that, I think you start to put a lot of things into context; you start to see how huge the world is, and really, the universe. "

" Anyone can be a celebrity now; this is not a big deal anymore. "