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" If you fall in love with somebody you're working with, fine, but wait till your project is over. "

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" You can think about your career or you can think about your job. I like to think about my job. "

" When you're in a place like New York or D.C. you just can't beat it, and it's so hard to recreate because they are both such distinctive places. "

" I really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood. "

" You hear different things from different people, and they're all valid: they're all valuable. I think that's what comprises a performance is all those ideas. "

" You watch a hockey game, and the hand-eye coordination and the speed is really miraculous; how those guys track the puck alone, just following it with their eyes. "

" You'd think true masculinity was just calm and collected happiness. So alpha male that it needs not or worries not. But typically masculine characters are always fighting, and most violence comes from some agitated level of fear and anxiety. "

" I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women. "

" I think New York will always be this incredible international crossroads, and I don't think that will ever change. "

" The best gig is the one you've got. "

" The worst bar fights I ever saw were in London. I saw a guy break a pint glass in another guy's face in a club in the Eighties. It was a gay club, too. "

" I'm terrible with big parties. "

" Everyone says villains are thankless parts, but those are really the best roles. "

" I find old women at weddings and funerals attractive; I have this weird mortality thing. "

" I remember finding 'Harold and Maude' strangely erotic. I've always had an octogenarian fetish. "

" Hamlet is a remarkably easy role. Physically it's hard because it tends to be about three hours long and you're talking the whole time. But it's a simple role and it adapts itself very well, because the thing about Hamlet is, we all are Hamlet. "

" I'm actually a very bad surfer, which is good because everybody likes a bad surfer. Nobody likes a good surfer. "

" Where else do you find great directors? Acting is one of the places. "

" I had great teachers, great ensembles, and great companies to work with who supported my career. "

" We have to remember to respect the faith of people and maybe not the organizations or the groups that manifest around it. "

" I get panic attacks in big crowds. "

" Every girl I've gone out with has said something to me first. "

" I was always drawn to tough girls. I liked that domineering thing. "

" Everyone assumes that novelists are smarter and more interesting. They're generally smarter and more interesting, but they're often very short. So it kind of cancels all the smart and interesting stuff out. "

" Entitlement is lethal. "

" I'm someone who started in the theater and really couldn't stand repeating the show. My favorite part of acting is the five or six weeks of rehearsal that you get. I like doing previews; I like the opening week because my friends and family come, and then after that, I don't want to do it anymore. "

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" There's nothing more exciting than that conversation you have with a live audience. It's the best feeling in the world. "

" That's one of the benefits of working on big budget films. You work with people who have a lot of experience and you get to learn a lot. "

" During 'Manchurian Candidate' - that role originated with Laurence Harvey, and I studied everything he did. I would never be able to reproduce that performance, but I got a lot of ideas from watching it. "

" Well, I don't think I've ever been a huge target for the press, and I value that to a degree, because there's a certain value for actors staying beneath the radar so they can play characters. "

" The funny thing is that I write and I act a lot about being Jewish, but I don't really think about it as a regular person. "