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" It was hard doing scenes with Bobby Cannavale because I would break up laughing because he's so funny. "

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" I love working with the same actors repeatedly. That happens a lot. It's kind of inevitable, especially if you work with the same writers and directors and you start to form a company of actors. You gravitate towards each other. "

" 'Lassie' was amazing. I didn't have any scenes with humans. There's a couple little bits, here or there, but mainly just me and my horse and a couple of dogs in the Isle of Man. "

" Friends don't care about issues like dwarf tossing. "

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" You want your privacy as a human being. "

" I think successful movies that are based on books are their own thing. I think if you're too faithful, word by word, character trait to character trait, it can hurt the movie. "

" Maybe everyone is a little too reassuring that things are going to be OK to college graduates. It gives them a false sort of security. "

" There's a thing at the Museum of Natural History in New York, where I live: they have a stairwell where you follow the beginning and the course of this planet, and it's a very long stairwell, and you follow, and you follow, and then you reach the top, and we're, like, half a step on the stairwell - the timeline for us on this planet. "

" Fantasy novels, I don't really gravitate to that part of the bookstore. "

" So I won't say I'm lucky. I'm fortunate enough to find or attract very talented people. For some reason I found them, and they found me. "

" Writing is getting killed by too many chefs. Back in the Bogart days, it started with great scripts. You had a writer, and he wrote a script, and that was your movie. I think that's been watered down a bit lately. "

" I like animals, all animals. I wouldn't hurt a cat or a dog - or a chicken or a cow. And I wouldn't ask someone else to hurt them for me. That's why I'm a vegetarian. "

" George Martin is an incredible writer. "

" My brother, who's a violinist now, was the real ham, the real performer of the family. His passion for the violin is the only thing that kept him from being an actor. "

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" As an adolescent, I was bitter and angry, and I definitely put up these walls. "

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" I've been to Sundance before, but I'd never seen a lot of screenings. "

" People's personalities get tweaked at weddings. "

" I think more money can be very detrimental to movies and TV because things get solved economically rather than creatively, and that's never a good solution. "

" Any swagger is just defense. When you're reminded so much of who you are by people - not a fame thing, but with my size, constantly, growing up - you just either curl up in a corner in the dark or you wear it proudly, like armor or something. You can turn it on its head and use it yourself before anybody else gets a chance. "

" I feel like life is much greater than a hero or a villain: there's good people that sometimes make mistakes. "

" Women respond to comfort and a sense of humor. I was always able to make them laugh, so that helps a lot. "

" I was fortunate enough to have an upbringing that made me more accepting of who I am. "

" I never was a big comic book fan. Obviously I'd heard them growing up from my friends who did read them, but I never was a big comic book reader. "

" I'm one of those who can't read the books after they've seen the movie. "

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" There are wars being fought! Who cares what I'm doing on a Saturday night? I'm not even a celebrity. "