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" My favorite actors are people who I don't know anything about, and I can project any character onto them. "

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" I never feel more confident and comfortable than when I'm wearing a Tom Ford suit. "

" I tend toward more adult fare, and I would love to do a voice in an animated film or something the boys could go see, but at a certain point, I made peace with myself about it. "

" I lived in several hotels, yeah. You have to try to make it home. "

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" There was so much going on in 1936 with the height of the Great Depression and the Spanish Civil War and Germany on the move and all of those things. There was a tension in the air. "

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" It's not like the right for gay people to marry just happened. "

" I love that Amazon has this incredibly unique, diplomatic process where people's voices are heard, and we're using this great interconnectedness we have, via the Internet, to weigh in and to have a say in what we want to see and what we don't. "

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" You're not going to do that. If you gave your best to what you were given, at the time, it's going to play out how it's going to play out. "

" Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from. "

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" Certainly, when you're dealing with more deep, emotional work and sensory work, for me, it helps me to just stay in it. "

" I was in romantic relationships with girls - whatever that means at 14. "

" In the end, someone is depending on me to show up on their set looking a specific way, whether that's 40 pounds overweight or 40 pounds underweight - or looking like a stripper. "

" There's a security, a validity of knowing that it's legal. It's hard to put into words. It's just a feeling, I guess - something about saying vows in front of the people around you who love and support you. "

" I really just try to focus on my job, which is to be an actor, and outside that, the cards fall where they may, and on not getting caught up in how people react to certain things. That's a death trap creatively. "

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" Thankfully, I have a very full life. I'm married with kids, so I have a lot of things to focus on, other projects either in post-production or pre-production, so you just do the best you can. "

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