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" I've never made any horrible, horrible movies. If you don't ruin your reputation, you can always get work. "

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" I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job. "

" People only talk about what a joyous experience it is, but there is terror: Your life, as you know it, is over. It's over the day that child is born. It's over, and something completely new starts. "

" I feel that if you really want an Oscar, you're in trouble. It's like wanting to be married - you'll take anybody. If you want the Oscar really badly, it becomes a naked desire and ambition. It becomes very unattractive. "

" Golf was my first glimpse of comedy. I was a caddy when I was a kid. I was on the golf course rather than being in lessons, but I can play better now than I could then. "

" Yeah, I think that's sort of the American way. And it's also the Polish way, it turns out. "

" Somewhere there's a score being kept, so you have an obligation to live life as well as you can, be as engaged as you can. "

" The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything: the better you are with your loved ones, the better you are with your enemies, the better you are at your job, the better you are with yourself. "

" While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille, died. My father had already died, but I always had some attachment to our big family while she was alive. It seems strange to say now that I felt so lonely, yet I did. "

" This really should be kept secret, but you can learn a lot by watching the making-of DVDs. Every actor should do it. You figure out what you're dealing with. "

" Whenever I think of the high salaries we are paid as film actors, I think it is for the travel, the time away, and any trouble you get into through being well known. It's not for the acting, that's for sure. "

" I don't know how this guy knew how much money I was making. I didn't know how much money I was making. "

" One of my gripes about movies is that people take them so seriously, and the moneymaking aspects are so brutal. "

" One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself. "

" People say I'm difficult and sometimes that's a badge of honour. "

" In Japan, you have no idea what they are saying, and they can't help you either. Nothing makes any sense. They're very polite, but you feel like a joke is being played on you the entire time you're there. "

" I realized the more fun I had, the more relaxed I was working, the better I worked. "

" I go home and stay there. I wash and scrub up each day, and that's it. One month I actually grew a moustache, just so I could say that I'd done something. "

" And I don't like to work. I only like working when I'm working. "

" When I work, my first relationship with people is professional. "

" Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one. "

" I came out of the old Second City in Chicago. Chicago actors are more hard-nosed. They're tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They're self-demanding. "

" I think midlife crisis is just a point where people's careers have reached some plateau and they have to reflect on their personal relationships. "

" There aren't many downsides to being rich, other than paying taxes and having relatives asking for money. But being famous, that's a 24 hour job right there. "

" Sometimes I snore, like when I get really tired. "

" Here's the thing, you just have to drive a lot faster, and if you don't get there, we're both fired. "

" There are people who drove me crazy, but they got the job done. And when I see that person again, I nod my head. Respect. "

" I throw a Christmas party at my house. It's not really a Christmas party, because I don't want to call it a Christmas party. But let's just say I put a lot of Christmas trees around the house, so it smells good. "

" When the phone started ringing too many times, I had to take it back to what I can handle. I take my chances on a job or a person as opposed to a situation. I don't like to have a situation placed over my head. "

" No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life. "

" I don't want to have a relationship with someone if I'm not going to work with them. "