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" In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play. "

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" One year, I went to Cannes with the film 'The Indian Runner' that Sean Penn directed. Everyone else in the film was all the same height, and on the red carpet, when they were taking photos, none of them would stand next to me, and I totally got it. "

" Part of the problem when I was doing 'How I Learned to Drive' is I would see my kids one night a week for six months, and that was just too hard. We moved to Philadelphia after we lost our house in the earthquake, the '94 Northridge earthquake. "

" I don't even know what TV star means. I know there's a difference in how people approach you, compared to movies. They feel OK coming up to you and sitting with you in a restaurant, unfortunately. "

" I've done scenes in films that I felt like the performance was better in certain takes, but they couldn't use them because it didn't match what the person was doing when they came around and the camera was on them. "

" Film is a very intimate medium. "

" With repertory, you had to play all these different characters. The range of roles is really what I fell in love with, every night getting to become somebody different. That was my idea of acting, getting to be part of the company and a family. "

" To this day, that's what I love the most: finding and playing characters who are out of my experience. "

" At 17, I became a member of the Boston Repertory Theatre. I had an opportunity pretty quickly and performed with the theater for six years. "

" I've tried to let the work I do speak. "

" Everything is interesting to me. "

" I try to do things I haven't been able to before. "

" With Sean Penn, he wants to be surprised. He doesn't necessarily want what he's written, although we'll do what he's written. He likes the danger of acting. "

" By the time I could have played football, I was already into acting and that's what I wanted to do. "

" I was involved with some great things in television that I could never have done in film. "

" I have a DVD player and I have DVDs, and I have no time to watch any of them. "

" Just in terms of when I got the script, the character I probably liked the least was Big Foster. Because even though he was central to the story and to that world, he was really written to be kind of a brute, a pig, a completely black-and-white bad guy. "

" In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story. "

" I will be always grateful to NBC. "

" I had the great good fortune of working with Christopher Plummer, Frances Sternhagen, and Arthur Hill early in my career, and it set a standard for the kind of work I want to do. "

" There's been one movie star that would not work with me because of my height. I had so many people who had to stand on boxes when they do scenes with me. "

" Because I'd only done theater, that's really what I thought most of my life would be. I always figured that movies would be a part of it at some point. I didn't know how or when. "

" I've always tried to not let movie, television or theatre be all that my life is about. I've always tried to get involved in the community or my family now I have kids. "

" The relationship with producers has always, in my experience, been, uhhh - tense. Challenging. But the actors and crew become like family. You're there all those hours - more than on a movie. You come to depend on each other. "

" I had almost no money, but with the little bit I had, I got a ticket to see 'That Championship Season' at the Booth theater. "

" I want to talk about my very first play, when I was in eighth grade. One day, my English teacher, Mrs. Baker, announced that we were going to read 'On Borrowed Time' out loud in class. I was a mediocre student; I was terrified that she was going to call on me, so I hid my head. "

" My first summer at a repertory theater, I was making $20 a week. I was making a living, as far as I was concerned, and I was doing theater. And next season, I made $40 a week. But I don't think anyone in my family would have considered that making a living. "

" No matter how many people tell you, Save your money, when you've got a series, you never do. Somehow it doesn't seem important. Maybe it's because you've been without money for so long as an actor. "

" I was a teenager and it was tough years for me. Being able to bring myself into a character and live in somebody else's world was so important for me emotionally. I couldn't express things well in my normal life. I was so overwhelmed by my emotions. "

" It's great to be able to have your feet in both worlds. I wouldn't want to be just stuck in one or the other. "

" I was stuck as a Boomer type in a lot of people's minds. "