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" I've never worked with a tail, that I can remember. But there's so much I can't remember. "

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" You know, I don't read the blogs, or go on the internet, and I really just don't know what people are saying because... well I guess I'm afraid to. "

" 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. "

" Yeah, it's nice to get paid for therapy rather than having to pay $240 an hour for it. "

" 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. "

" 1% of the population has all the money and the other 99% have nothing. "

" Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees. "

" I'm just trying to make up for lost times, and I have total awareness that when the work is coming it doesn't mean it's going to continue to come, so I'm taking advantage of this phenomenal period that I'm in now, to its fullest. "

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

" I do voicework all the time. "

" I'm continuing to do research into biker culture. "

" 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. "

" I feel as though my criteria are based more on how challenging the role is, it doesn't have to fit into any particular profile, is it something that I've never done before, and is it something that I feel like I can really feel challenged and therefore fully engaged in, and that's when the work gets to be the most fun. "

" 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. "

" I think now that I'm in the autumn of my life, and I'm getting a chance of having an overview and looking at the shape of how things happen, when things happen, why things happen, I think it was fitting that I spent most of my early career doing mask work, because I just don't think I was that comfortable in my own skin. "

" The thing that's cool about the recording booth is that it's so perfunctory, so cut-to-the-chase. "

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

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

" There are always great deals of humanity in the characters that have been offered to me. "

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

" I've been a professional actor for almost 40 years. "

" You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor. "

" My self-confidence didn't come from my appearance, it came from other things that I did. But certainly not my appearance. "

Self-Confidence

" Let me put it this way: I definitely need to understand the villains I play. The best cause pain to anesthetize themselves against their own pain. "

" If something strikes me as insane and unjust, I cannot tolerate that. "

" I've had biker clubs reach out to me whenever they knew I was in their city. "

" I think there are a lot of technocrats in the business who would much rather work with just wheels and gears and machinery. Those things interest them more than humanity and I wish them the best of luck. "

" I love great animation. "

" I've certainly been very blessed with opportunity. "