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" I'm afraid of the dark. I'm not kidding. "

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" I was an anomaly because my father was a Harvard man, and he came from a family of poor people. "

" Fatherhood didn't change me in the beginning very much. "

" When I was a teenager, you wanted to go to the movies. Go and see 'Mean Streets,' go and see 'The Conversation,' go and see 'Taxi Driver.' "

" I have an idealistic approach to acting. I want to be great at it, but you can't be great if the scripts are not there and the director doesn't know what he's doing. "

" You must have to want it so badly, if there is any way you can live without it, get out of it. Being an unsuccessful actor is like having a skin disease. Make sure your passion is not misplaced. "

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" I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going. "

" I read for 'Reservoir Dogs,' and it got down to me and Buscemi, and Quentin couldn't make up his mind. I really wanted that part, but Buscemi is great in that. I also got really close on 'Gladiator,' but Ridley Scott decided on Russell Crowe, who's perfect in it. "

" It used to be the case that studio executives like Robert Evans, Darryl Zanuck, and David Selznick would put aside money for what they wanted to be great movies regardless of whether they would perform well with the box office. "

" I don't know what to say about it except Tom Hanks is a great person, a serious person; he's dissatisfied in a very likeable way, in a very discreet way, and Steven Spielberg is similar in his discretion and drive. But Spielberg is calm. He's this driven filmmaker and visionary. He really is. "

" Acting is never done. We're trying to keep it real and make sure that you're entertained and it seems unrehearsed. "

" Katherine Heigl was a movie star. I thought she was going to be one, and it was fun to watch this young actress getting better every day. "

" I was a wayward kid, a rambunctious and angry teenager, but I found acting as a fifteen-year-old. "

" Whatever it is, if you draw, you paint, you're a carpenter, you play football, the more you do it, you're a journalist, the more stories you write, the more people you interview and navigate your way through these different personalities to get your story, the better you're going to get at it. Acting's no different. "

" I wanted to get on with my life when I was 16. I knew I wanted to be an actor. I wanted to get out of Detroit. "

" My family is very discreet. White-shoe, you know? "

" I'm essentially a momma's boy with a good education. "

" I try to stop and take a 10-second break and ask myself before I do something: One, is this going to improve my life for my children, or two, will there be a potential for something to go wrong here? "

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" I wouldn't want anything to do with me. "

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" I don't know if people know that Sylvester Stallone is one of the most decent gentlemen that I've ever met. He's the most consistent friend I've ever had. "

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