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" If you're an actor, even a successful one, you're still waiting for the phone to ring. "

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" I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible. "

" The way I analyze a script, I don't look at how many days I have off. I see how far they're going to push me. That's just the way I am. "

" Clint Eastwood has always been a hero. "

" I try to show compassion to people I come into contact with and try to put good out, as much good as I can. But that's my life; that's not my work. With my work, my job is to walk in another man's shoes. "

" Ninety-five percent of celebrity is good. "

" Somebody with a billion followers can tweet, 'See my movie,' and it can still tank. Followers don't always translate into success because I think people are too savvy. When something takes off, it's because people are connecting to it - not because someone with a lot of followers says to care about it. "

" I'm a vagabond. I have a suitcase that is ready to go at a moment's notice. The thought of being in one place for a long time, or playing one character for a long time, is terrifying for me. "

" 'Animal House' was my first movie, so I didn't have anything to compare it to. I was a sight gag more than anything else. So I can't say it was one of those things where your life changes. When the movie came out, I had to ask for the night off at the bar. "

" I would say invisibility would be sort of a fun power to have just to see what it was like to move through the world and not be looked at. "

" I did a year of 'Guiding Light', and I was going to be a movie actor or a stage actor, but not a TV actor. That just wasn't going to happen. And obviously, things changed so remarkably. "

" I used to live on Riverside Park in New York, on the Upper West Side. "

" I'm obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books. "

" I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act. "

" My kids don't watch my movies. What I want to do is go home and hug my kids, talk to them and engage with them. "

" Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's not good enough. "

Not Good Enough

" As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive. "

" I've been in silly movies and romantic movies and historic movies. "

" People work so hard, and I want to keep that energy up, and you can spread that if you're the actor. But I'm also not able to turn it on and off like a faucet. A lot of what I'm called upon to play is violent or angry. When I'm messing around with the crew and making jokes, I remember, 'Oh, this is the guy I normally am.' "

" I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood. "

" I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young, hungry actor, it's pretty fun. I was the only one they screen tested. It was an attempt by the director and producer to talk the head of the studio into hiring me because they didn't want me. "

" I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again - I just have to find a story I want to tell. "

" Doing funny scary is something that is rarely good and rarely works, and it's also something that's incredibly hard to market. "

" Keep doing what you're doing. Don't be afraid of fame. "

" With 'Transparent'. When Amazon put 'Transparent' up, along with 'Bosch' and a few other things, I watched them, and I thought it was an interesting exercise. I didn't comment on them, but I was like, 'Okay, this is kind of cool.' "

" I wasn't going off to New York to be more famous than my father, but in retrospect, that certainly was driving me. He was famous in Philadelphia, but it was also really important to him to be famous. And to a certain extent, I got some of that, even though there were parts of it that horrified me. "

" I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic. "

" Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent. "