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" I've always wanted to play a hard-boiled gumshoe, as they say. "

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

" There's something about playing the baddies that people like. They're more fun, and people tend to remember them, particularly if you do them well. "

" 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. "

" I have always been attracted to good scripts and try hard to make characters as believable as possible. That means trying to figure out how they would react to situations, what they eat, think, and feel. "

" 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. "

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

" I've been fortunate in my career to have the opportunity to pick and choose the parts I play. I've also been lucky to always be involved with quality actors, quality directors, quality writers. "

" Since I've had some success, story and character are always the two elements I think about first in material presented to me. Some of my choices have been more successful than others. "

" I've auditioned five or six times. I'm not very good at it. "

" If I rob a gas station, I'm going to get 15 years. If I steal $400 million on Wall Street, I start plea-bargaining. "

" We all want to pretend that there isn't evil in the world. We all want to pretend that there aren't people trying to take us out and different things like that. "

" We're in the business of making films, not striking or anything else. "

" Everyone has this vision of Jones as a maniacal ogre. Wrong. He was charming, sweet, and a fabulous speaker. "

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

" Actors have far fewer choices than the public thinks they do. "

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" I like to do things that are about relationships, work with quality people, and tell a different kind of story. "

" I'm not going to make my living out of beating my head against somebody else. "

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" When I first came to Hollywood, I played about as many guys who save the day and get the girl as I played heavies. It's just that heavies are more interesting and last in people's minds. "

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" I've had presidents in my lifetime - and I'm old enough to have seen several - that I really detested, but they're still my president. I've had presidents that I've really liked. "