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

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

" The guy who kind of broke the story in 'Spotlight' was a priest, the guy who had sort of done all the research. One of the things he said when one of the 'Spotlight' reporters asked him how he could still remain a Catholic, he said that, 'My faith is in the eternal, and the church is an organization.' "

" 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 went to school in Massachusetts at Hampshire College. "

" No offense to the Canadians, but I believe location is like a character, and authenticity really matters. 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 think it's pretty easy these days to tell films that are shot in Toronto. "

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

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

" I live with an 18-month-old Jack Russell named Chicken. He moved in about 15 months ago, and it was very hard at first because I work a lot and he doesn't. "

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

" 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. "

" I was always curious about motivation and intention, and really, that's a lot of what acting is. I was a little bit different. "

" No, I grew up admiring people who played ice hockey. "

" Some actors need to be rattled and some need to be focused. "

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

" I manage to hide in my movies. "

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

" I am so used to being able to express myself from being an actor. So when people don't understand me, I'm just completely lost. "

" I'm terrible with big parties. "

" 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. "

" I've never been a heavy practitioner of the method or, at least, with any specific intent; I'm kind of an impulse-based person. Like, I'm sort of waiting for something to happen that I'm not expecting, and I kind of want to jump on that train of emotion, whatever it is, both from myself or from the other actor. "

" I love having that creative discussion where, at the end of the day, you both feel better for having done it. Maybe it's a typically Jewish thing, where you sort of go at each other. "

" And you know, I hate to admit this, but I don't always think in terms of Shakespeare. When I eat, I do. When I'm at a restaurant, I'll think, 'Hmm, what would Macbeth have ordered?' "

" Style, no matter how outrageous it is, is still an expression of someone's personality. And my personality is somewhere stuck in the classics. "

" You always have to create the character from the ground up. "

" 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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" 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. "

" There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet. "

" That's really how I got started was doing Shakespeare. When I got out of school, I was lucky enough to meet George Wolfe, who ran The Public Theater. "

" Entitlement is lethal. "

" I think, the first time I played Iago at the Public Theater, I realized I had a - much to my chagrin - I realized I had an instinct for these conflicted characters, for these torn characters, for these characters who could be described as evil. I wouldn't describe them that way. "