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" I've arrived at the place if I'm not taking a career risk, I'm not happy. If I'm scared, then I know I'm being challenged. "

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" It's nice to finally get scripts offered to me that aren't the ones Tom Hanks wipes his butt with. "

" My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted. "

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" What I have in common with the character in 'Truman' is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started. "

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" There was a time when people said, 'Jim, if you keep on making faces, your face will freeze like that.' Now they just say, 'Pay him!' "

" I've never been one to sit back and go, 'I'd better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don't want to lose them.' "

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" My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh. "

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" I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin' wealthy. "