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" I'm not going to party. I'm going to go do something that will make me break a sweat. "

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" Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful. "

" Fame... it's been a challenge, let's put it that way. It's a privilege and a responsibility, and I'm not sure I carried the responsibility well at times, which is embarrassing. And I've had to look and be disappointed in myself occasionally for how I behaved in some circumstances. "

" Celebrity is a pathological sickness of the culture. Narcissists on screen being consumed by narcissists off-screen. "

" If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character. "

" I haven't planned a reaction on anything... If you do, you've screwed up. "

" Defeating fear is not a light switch. For most of us, it's daily work. "

" I've made a couple of films that were a little too wide and non-specific - like 'The Doctor.' "

" I grew up in the South Pacific. Basically, my brothers were Guamanian. I spoke words of Guamanian long before I spoke words of English, and so I've seen a lot. You know, I've traveled in places where people don't have the benefits of American life. And so I've seen a lot of stuff. "

" Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure. "

" I'm never happier than when I'm with my family. "

" I live in the county where my mother was born and buried. "

" I was very lucky when I was a kid - I travelled a lot and spent a lot of time in Africa, Asia and Europe. I also chant in Sanskrit. "

" I listen to XM radio because I can get so many overseas news stations. "

" All I know is that my best work has come out of being committed and happy. "

" The achievement is appreciation. Your ability to be surprised and awed by beauty! "

" Post-adolescence reaches usually into the late 30s. "

" I like to work. I'm glad; I'm privileged to have work. "

" I was held hostage and almost executed by a man who was robbing us in the middle of the night. "

" If you don't exercise, you don't stay strong. I like to work with talented people. "

" I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process. "

" I demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either. "

" The enemies of acting are mood and attitude and other general homogenized disruptive entities. Whereas acting is about action - doing - and unless you can figure out a way to craft in an imaginative reality to which you don't submit, you're going to be out of control. You'll flip out. The job is to be surprised. "

" Where did I study? I went to P.S. 6. I went to Collegiate, Middlesex, Tufts, Juilliard. "

" I am constantly asked, 'What's the difference between acting in the theater and acting in film?' The only answer I can give is the space - you adapt to the space. But acting is acting. "

" The funnel of deep feeling and profound satisfaction in life comes from the capacity to feel. "

" You cut off the capacity for grief in your life, and you cut off the joy at the same time. They both come up through the same tunnel. You don't have one without the other. "

" The thrill of acting is the discovery part, so it all changes, but it has to change in a way that fits what is written. You can't just wander off and get interested in your own tangent. "

" I had great qualms about playing a man who was living. I've never met Walt McCandless, and I never will. "

" I am not a famous person at home - I'm just a guy here. I'm a father, I'm a companion, I'm a human being. I am not a public figure in my house; I am not a celebrity. I am not a famous person to myself - I am just a guy. "

" I have a way of synthesizing. That's what I would encourage any young person to do: take in the ideas, the conflicts, and the world. Watch and listen and live before you go public. "