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" I'll tell you what I probably would prefer to happen less and less: actors that I know and respect in shampoo ads. Or modeling. "

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" I've never really been one to get what they call stage fright so much. "

" I don't consider myself specifically political, you know? I think of working as an actor as being a human thing. The concerns I have that fall into politics are human concerns. "

" Yeah, I had a tremendous time shooting in Nebraska. I like that state a lot, all over it. "

" I consider myself fortunate that in my home, acting or the creative arts were a good option. This was a respected tour of duty in my family. Acting wasn't something that was left to tragic bohemians. But we weren't a family that obsessed on cinema. "

" Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father. "

" The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that. "

" I choose movies that I think will speak to what's important. "

" I live in the energy and rhythm of the character. To some degree, that's true of every actor I've worked with. "

" I think we all have light and dark inside us. "

" There's not a lot of good movies being made. "

" In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor. "

" Craft comes into acting later rather than sooner. I was somebody who had to learn through a process - a natural actor doesn't need to. "

" I'm not a breakfast eater. "

" Haiti kind of gets a hold of you. "

" The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different. "

" I'm always frustrated when somebody makes a movie out of a book and they leave the book behind, or the heart of it. "

" I can always see light in any situation. It's just the way I'm made. "

" When I buy a Nikon camera, I have no tolerance for the instructions. I'm ready to make some mistakes using it and get some bad pictures back until I've figured it out for myself. "

" I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one. "

" You try to do your best at what you're getting paid for. "

" I've been a road-rat since I got my driver's licence at 16, so I've probably gone across America 20 times. "

" My favorite thing to do is not act - it's that simple. "

" That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too. "

" There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged. "

" There is no re-inventing the wheel. "

" The major studios are by and large banks, and they give you what is by and large a loan to make a movie. Like banks, they want their money back plus. "

" Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking. "

" I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that. "