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" I'm really enjoying the character now, but I don't want to just be Philip Marlowe. I wouldn't mind playing him every couple of years, perhaps, as a kind of open franchise - you know? "

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" When I'm out there, it's just me. Nobody's controlling me, and I can do whatever I want to do. I'm my own man. "

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" If there is anything I am about, it is I want justice in society. "

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" I was the first one in the family, on either side, to go to college - much less graduate school. "

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" Sometimes, I feel like directors look at me and say, 'I want to put that boy in the jungle. I want to hurt him.' "

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" I think I'm pretty politically informed, and I find myself watching Senate hearings on C-SPAN. "

" One thing that's thematically consistent in 'Sin City' is that all the performances seem to be of the same genre, like we're singing the same song. "

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" Some stars can make five or six failures in a row and continue to work - with a raise. I can't figure how that works. Maybe foreign sales or a smart agent. "

" We have real cliched ideas of what prison life is like. It is not a happy place. It's a desperate, sad situation. "

" When 'Deadwood' came along, it was totally like Shakespeare. The long speeches were like soliloquies. If one phrase of a monologue was out of whack, the entire one-page speech didn't work. "

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" It's never a matter of career decisions. I don't think in those terms. What matters is whether a role is interesting, if I will enjoy playing it, and if I'm confident I can do a good job. "

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