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" I've made a couple of films that were a little too wide and non-specific - like 'The Doctor.' "

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" If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character. "

" For as privileged an actor as I have been, TV as a standard is short shrift. They have to do it so quickly that they don't stop and take a look. They just shoot. So that's one of the reasons I typically stay away from it. I think art is an act of consideration, and if you're not considering, I don't think you're really doing mankind a favor. "

" I'm never happier than when I'm with my family. "

" I have a way of synthesizing. That's what I would encourage any young person to do: take in the ideas, the conflicts, and the world. Watch and listen and live before you go public. "

" The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being. "

" The enemies of acting are mood and attitude and other general homogenized disruptive entities. Whereas acting is about action - doing - and unless you can figure out a way to craft in an imaginative reality to which you don't submit, you're going to be out of control. You'll flip out. The job is to be surprised. "

" Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study. "

" If you don't exercise, you don't stay strong. I like to work with talented people. "

" The thrill of acting is the discovery part, so it all changes, but it has to change in a way that fits what is written. You can't just wander off and get interested in your own tangent. "

" I am not a famous person at home - I'm just a guy here. I'm a father, I'm a companion, I'm a human being. I am not a public figure in my house; I am not a celebrity. I am not a famous person to myself - I am just a guy. "

" I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily. "

" I generally try to think of what it is I want to express and then find a way of expressing it. "

" I listen to XM radio because I can get so many overseas news stations. "

" I don't want my children to have to wade through the crap to get to the cream, you know. I want them to be aware that I struggled to live with and tell my truth, and that it was a decent thing. "

" I'm not going to party. I'm going to go do something that will make me break a sweat. "

" We'd like to prearrange our life on all levels. We'd prefer it to be scripted. But it's not. "

" I grew up in the South Pacific. Basically, my brothers were Guamanian. I spoke words of Guamanian long before I spoke words of English, and so I've seen a lot. You know, I've traveled in places where people don't have the benefits of American life. And so I've seen a lot of stuff. "

" The achievement is appreciation. Your ability to be surprised and awed by beauty! "

" David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists. "

" What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement. "

" I'm coming from the notion that acting is an art. It is not a business. It is about building characters, not about selling personalities. "

" My greatest offering is my concept. It isn't my face. "

" You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold. "

" The point is that there are challenges within techniques. When you differentiate in technique, you challenge yourself; you ask yourself the same question in a new way. "

" You get older, and people start passing away. And so if you're lucky - my mom died very young, for instance, and I have friends who died very young - but the point being that, I think if you're awake, you know you're going to pass on. And that the real treasure in life is the long term - relationships that you really value. "

" The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done. "

" When you are a kid, you are beset by fears, and you think, 'I'll solve the fear by living forever and becoming a movie star.' "

" Woody Allen asked me to improv once. I said no. "