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

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" 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. "

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

" Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge. "

" Play is play, fun is fun, and work is work. They're different. I work hard; even if it's supposed to be fun for someone else, it's work for me. "

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

" 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 had great qualms about playing a man who was living. I've never met Walt McCandless, and I never will. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I like to work. I'm glad; I'm privileged to have work. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I'm not there to tailor the role to me: I'm there to tailor me to the role. That guarantees me something, a precious thing, which is creativity. I'm guaranteed that I will have a creative experience, because I will go to it, not demand that it comes to me. "

" Celebrity is a pathological sickness of the culture. Narcissists on screen being consumed by narcissists off-screen. "

" 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. "

" Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity. "

" I haven't planned a reaction on anything... If you do, you've screwed up. "

" I was held hostage and almost executed by a man who was robbing us in the middle of the night. "

" Defeating fear is not a light switch. For most of us, it's daily work. "

" I am just as comfortable in Britain and France as I am in America... but nowhere is perfect. "

" You can only sit on the frustration of wanting to express something for so long. "

" I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process. "

" 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.' "

" The problem with Google is you have 360 degrees of omnidirectional information on a linear basis, but the algorithms for irony and ambiguity are not there. And those are the algorithms of wisdom. "

" It was the moment I learned acting is not acting out. After that light went on, I spent the rest of my life trying to figure out how to make other people realize it. "