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" I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home. "

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" The only really conscious decision I made was to cast my net wide and if the work was good, to do it. "

" It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know. "

" I have a bag with a toothbrush and toothpaste and all the things I might need during the day. I call the bag my trailer. Sometimes you don't have a trailer, so that's my trailer. "

" My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence. "

" My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.' "

" I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used. "

" I could have gone to the gym for three hours a day and bought into all that, but I just wasn't interested. "

" I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone of dread about the subject, so people don't talk about it and don't prepare for it. "

" I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff. "

" My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them. "

" I grew up in Manhattan on the Upper East Side. "

" If you have two parents who have to work, who want to work, you need to have someone to guide your child. "

" Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor. "

" I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make. "

" You have to relish the challenge of television. "

" I can scarcely stand to have a manicure. I have to have them because you don't want to look like a disgusting human being - it's self-care and it has to happen, but I get very restless. "

" I have an instinct to want to be part of a group of people. I feel safe there. That's why I was in school for so long. "

" Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships. "

" Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention. "

" Tanning is tricky, because a lot of people just look orange. "

" I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable. "

" I love 70's music. "

" I certainly didn't have a nanny. "

" History's a resource. "

" What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die - that's that. "

" I enjoy learning about different periods and people, and then taking what's universal about the human condition and seeing where it matches up. No matter where you are, certain things unite everybody. "

" What I hope in my ideal world is that with each project, I'll either get to work with a really great script that would force me to grow, or work with a really great actor who will make me better. "

" I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me! "

" If there's one thing that I've done on purpose it's to take whatever job, so long as it's interesting and challenging, whether it's theatre, radio, TV or film. "

" I am very lucky, because for the most part people are very nice to me, and I am still able to go about my life and ride the subway and all that. "