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" 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. "

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" There's this American dream to put enough away that you can golf and build a birdhouse or just be in a Barcalounger watching football all day. I'll never be that guy. And I'm not really sure the people who have that are all that happy. Our desires as a man are to work, plow ahead, and overcome conflict. "

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

" 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. "

" With a lot of actors, you've got to chip through the surface to see who the real person is. "

" I'm a vagabond. I have a suitcase that is ready to go at a moment's notice. The thought of being in one place for a long time, or playing one character for a long time, is terrifying for me. "

" I do better on the first three takes; I won't be better at 20 takes. "

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

" Doing funny scary is something that is rarely good and rarely works, and it's also something that's incredibly hard to market. "

" I have fond memories of Chris Penn, who's sadly not with us. He always made me laugh - it was great to be with him. "

" I would say invisibility would be sort of a fun power to have just to see what it was like to move through the world and not be looked at. "

" 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. "

" There are two types of actors: those who say they don't want to be famous, and those who are liars. "

" There's the most resistance to an actor singing. It's like I'm being disloyal to my industry. "

" I have a natural swagger. "

" Before Footloose, the things I'd done weren't cute. In Diner I was an alcoholic. "

" As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive. "

" The greats are 'The Shining', 'Rosemary's Baby', 'Don't Look Now', 'The Exorcist' - those movies were not really slashers: they were about psychological terror and had very deep emotional backdrops. If we do our best, '6 Miranda Drive' can be that kind of a movie. "

" Certainly, network television in general relies a little bit too much on keeping people focused and emotional and scared and pushing the envelope by building wall-to-wall music. "

" I'm an actor. It's what I do. It's what I chose to do with my life when I was a little boy, and that's what Im still doing. I like to work. I came up with a work ethic, and that's just what I do. "

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

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" For my wife and I, for so many years, a lot of our identity was based on being Hollywood haters. We were like, 'We're east-coast. We're New Yorkers. This is just a place that we have to come to, but not by choice.' "

" Keep doing what you're doing. Don't be afraid of fame. "

" If you look at films about becoming a man, coming-of-age movies are made with 12-, 16-, 40-, 50-year-olds... For a guy to feel like he's a 100 percent grown-up is almost like giving up. Like admitting that you're on your way into the grave. "

" I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to be a good guy, a bad guy, a victim, an abuser. There are all kinds of people in the world, and playing them is what acting is all about. "

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