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

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" Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him. "

" 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. "

" Do you want to be the guy with a game named after you or be the one with 18 Oscar nominations? "

" I've played a lot of bad guys, and I'm pretty good at leaving my work at the office. And I look at acting as having a certain sort of therapeutic nature to it. "

" Things could be worse. You remember that, and you go on with your life. "

" I wanted to do something heroic if I was going to be on TV. And the first thing that appeals to me once I have decided I don't want to be the bad guy is to find things that are not black and white. "

Black And White

" You can sit around and complain that Hollywood doesn't make any good movies. But you can generate your own material. So I read books. I come up with ideas. I was the producer on 'The Woodsman' to help get that off the ground. Sometimes that extends itself to directing. "

" In my movie work, if I do one guy, the next guy I do, I want to do something kind of different. Even in terms of genre - it's really great to mix it up a little. "

" I started making movies in 1977, and I didn't even think about the idea that I would ever be on a television show. Once I finished the 'Guiding Light,' I was like, 'I'm done with television!' "

" I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views. "

" If you look at my movie career, I do switch it up a lot. I'm always looking for a lot of different parts. It's been a while since I've been in a situation that was romantic. "

" My dad was an architect, and he wasn't a rich guy, but in our little world in Philadelphia, he was famous. He loved to see his picture in the paper. I wanted to be more famous than him. "

" I'll be honest with you. My kids don't watch my movies and never have. I can maybe name a film one hand that they've seen, actually, all the way through. "

" I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music. "

" It does get old to have to always be a monkey in a zoo. I don't know what it's like any more to be anonymous. "

" 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 don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game. "

" I'm not someone who comes onstage and says, 'I'm rewriting this now.' I don't think it's fair to the writers or the director, or the other actors. "

" 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

" 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.' "

" 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.' "

" When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song. "

" If you take me out of it, I find 'six degrees' to be a beautiful concept that we should try to live by. It's about compassion and responsibility for everyone on the planet. "

" 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. "

" Some people have therapy, some people are alcoholics or they're in AA. Some people jump out of planes on weekends or find ways to release this kind of thing. And for me, it's acting. I find acting very therapeutic for whatever it is. "

" My family survived losing money to Bernie Madoff incredibly well compared to others. "

" I still want to make Kyra proud of the person I am - father, husband, actor, musician. "

" I don't have any plans of slowing down. I love being an actor. "

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