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" If you don't exercise, you don't stay strong. I like to work with talented people. "

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" I don't have any artifacts of my profession in my house; the Oscar is in storage. "

" I haven't planned a reaction on anything... If you do, you've screwed up. "

" You get older, and people start passing away. And so if you're lucky - my mom died very young, for instance, and I have friends who died very young - but the point being that, I think if you're awake, you know you're going to pass on. And that the real treasure in life is the long term - relationships that you really value. "

" I like to work. I'm glad; I'm privileged to have work. "

" The thing is David is also aware of everything and it's not like you're going somewhere the director is not. "

" I am not a famous person at home - I'm just a guy here. I'm a father, I'm a companion, I'm a human being. I am not a public figure in my house; I am not a celebrity. I am not a famous person to myself - I am just a guy. "

" 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. "

" I've been delighted by Cannes and Toronto but I keep saying I don't know how good we're going to be received in America because that's where it's most challenging. "

" I very much prefer the balance in a scene to standing out and so you have to make a decision. "

" Woody Allen asked me to improv once. I said no. "

" Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just trying to get in and you're given so little time to get in gently, but it's always hard. "

" Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study. "

" 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. "

" I am so thrilled by the privilege of life, and yet at the same time I know that I have to let it go. "

" Rage with panache. "

" I'm an actor. I play roles in films and theaters. I don't act out, and I don't play people. "

" The thrill of acting is the discovery part, so it all changes, but it has to change in a way that fits what is written. You can't just wander off and get interested in your own tangent. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" The enemies of acting are mood and attitude and other general homogenized disruptive entities. Whereas acting is about action - doing - and unless you can figure out a way to craft in an imaginative reality to which you don't submit, you're going to be out of control. You'll flip out. The job is to be surprised. "

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

" I have a film I want to direct. Gena Rowlands was going to do it with me a long time ago. It's about an older woman who's running a ranch in the west the old fashioned way. "

" I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process. "

" I've made a couple of films that were a little too wide and non-specific - like 'The Doctor.' "

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

" The point is that there are challenges within techniques. When you differentiate in technique, you challenge yourself; you ask yourself the same question in a new way. "

" When you are a kid, you are beset by fears, and you think, 'I'll solve the fear by living forever and becoming a movie star.' "

" It's been a long comeback. Things were pretty dark for me. But I have a faith now, and it saves my day. I was angry with God for a long time because I was unhappy with me. I hadn't learned to make the distinction between God and my parents. But there's a peace now. In the end, I got sick and tired of being sick and tired. "

" I listen to XM radio because I can get so many overseas news stations. "