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" I've been busy and not busy, and busy is better. I've been busy, but I went through a lot of periods where it was lean for a lot of times. "

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" Some of the great characters that I've played had to be transformational. "

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" Well, I don't have an agenda. "

" I'm fully aware that things that resonate and become real hits are the exception to the rule, so much so that I've wired myself for failure. "

" I think in the early part of my career, the roles were so disparate that it never gave anybody an opportunity to understand my essence and what I would be good at doing, as opposed to what I would not be good at doing, so these little moments of beautiful things that were happening to me were consistent, but very few and very far between. "

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" In the early '90s, when those little art films started coming out, we were introduced to Quentin Tarantino and guys like that, and independent cinema was something that everyone wanted to be a part of. "

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" I actually think it's harder to play vulnerability, because you're having to delve deeper into portions of your own psyche, what it is that makes you human. "

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" I lost 90 pounds and my blood pressure went down to a normal level and the salt in my urine disappeared. And that was when I had to make the transition from fat character actor to thin character actor. "

" Somebody who doesn't care if they live or die is the most dangerous human being on earth. "

" I don't ever want to be comfortable with anything I'm doing. "

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" I say yes to almost anything that comes my way. "

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" I couldn't make it on the swimming team in high school. In fact, I got thrown off the swimming team and was forced to audition for the school play because they had at the audition about 35 girls show up and no boys, so my swimming coach suggested that I might be able to do the drama department more good than I was doing the swimming team. "

" Distortions control my self-image, like they do for a lot of us. It's irrational. "

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" It's really disgusting what Hollywood can do to a guy. "