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" It wasn't until my senior year in high school that I started acting. "

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" Bob Altman had this relaxed but serious attitude. Everybody loved him. I wanted him to adopt me. "

" I always find that it's when a script is not detailed, then I have to do more work as an actor. "

" Shooting in sequence, I think it intensifies everybody's relationship, the crew, the actors. You have to be very focused, and shooting at night is a challenge because you get tired. I think it requires a special kind of concentration, but it's also exhilarating. "

" I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it. "

" I like the struggles that people have, people who are feeling like they don't fit into society, because I still sort of feel that way. "

" I didn't really like the aloneness of doing stand-up. "

" I've never had a grand plan. I've only just tried to keep open to many different possibilities, have fun and work with people who are passionate about what they do. "

" I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin. "

" I didn't think I'd ever be able to do movies. That was for serious actors. "

" Character actors just pile up the credits because you work on a movie for, like, a few days. It's not like I'm the lead in everything I do - far from it. I'm not spending three or four months on a picture; I'm spending three or four weeks. Sometimes three or four days. "

" Growing up, yeah, I had a magic kit with learn tricks and learn card tricks, but I was never... I used to watch whatever magic special was on as a kid, but then, it's not that I lost interest, but to be a magician, you really, it's really hard work. Learning lines is hard enough; learning sleight of hand, that's real practice. "

" The first movie I had a featured role in was Parting Glances. "

" I was really young, just playing with puppets a lot and doing all the voices and acting it out - normal kid stuff. But then I'd hear my mother talking about it to her relatives, marveling at it as if it was something unique. And it made me realize, 'Oh, maybe I do have a talent for something.' "

" I had a magic kit. I never really followed through on it, but I had my phase of wanting to do it, sure. "

" It's not like I'm looking for things that I can direct that I can also act in, but when it's right, I feel like the actor side of me wants to have that opportunity. "

" I was very surprised that for a while I could only get cast as straight. It was that way for a few years. "

" It doesn't matter to me what the genre is. "

" I love working with Scorsese. He's not only a brilliant director and is great working with actors, but he's also a walking human film encyclopedia. It's fun to talk about movies with him. "

" To me, it doesn't really matter how big the part is as long as the part is important to the story. "

" I talked with Quentin about where the character came from, and he told me Kansas City. I don't know how somebody talks from Kansas City, so I made him from New York. "

" In the beginning, it wasn't even a question of deciding I'm going to do independent film and not commercial films - I wasn't being offered any commercial films, and there wasn't an independent scene. "

" Relationships are interesting to me. Not just between men and women, but fathers and sons, brothers and sisters and friends. "

" I never made a daring rescue, which is the story people want to hear. I did go to my share of fires. "

" Every day's an adventure when I step out of my door. That's why I usually wear a hat and keep my head low. "

" I've always tried to have a healthy take on the characters I play; they are only characters I play. "

" I like character-driven stuff. It doesn't matter, the size of the part. "

" I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that. "

" I usually get freaked out if I'm in a situation where a lot of people recognise me at once. "

" Whenever you do something that is in a continuous take, and something that we're not used to doing, because it was all in the details of if you don't make one move seem natural, it can give away all of it. "