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" No, I grew up admiring people who played ice hockey. "

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" A lot of times in Hollywood you're as good as your last job. "

" Where else do you find great directors? Acting is one of the places. "

" The skill set for hockey is so specific to skating and if you haven't been skating as a kid it's impossible to play - and I wasn't a skater. "

" I have Slavic fat pads that make me look like a chipmunk and arched predatory eyebrows. With that, you're not going to get funny. That's why I play so many bad guys. "

" If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character. "

" Everyone says villains are thankless parts, but those are really the best roles. "

" I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright. "

" I'm drawn to people who share that sense of loss. All actors are trying to repair damaged relationships. I think that might be why I've been drawn to other actors. "

" I struggle with the idea of comparing people's work and art. The notion of giving awards or putting a competitive spin on something that is a relative art form is sort of odd to me. "

" We have to remember to respect the faith of people and maybe not the organizations or the groups that manifest around it. "

" There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet. "

" That's really how I got started was doing Shakespeare. When I got out of school, I was lucky enough to meet George Wolfe, who ran The Public Theater. "

" I'm actually a very bad surfer, which is good because everybody likes a bad surfer. Nobody likes a good surfer. "

" You can think about your career or you can think about your job. I like to think about my job. "

" If you fall in love with somebody you're working with, fine, but wait till your project is over. "

" I think, the first time I played Iago at the Public Theater, I realized I had a - much to my chagrin - I realized I had an instinct for these conflicted characters, for these torn characters, for these characters who could be described as evil. I wouldn't describe them that way. "

" I think it's really, really important to mix it up as an actor, to try to get as much kind of varied experience as you can, not only for your own personal growth as an actor but for the audience to keep them guessing about what you're going to do. "

" I'm a typically lazy person. It is sort of characteristic of actors. "

" My mother didn't let me see color films. I saw a lot of black-and-white films. The first time I saw Basil Rathbone, I was completely taken. To me, that was the epitome of great acting, was Basil Rathbone - not only in Sherlock Holmes, but the Sheriff of Nottingham, and all the terrible characters he had to play alongside Errol Flynn. "

" I've got nothing against L.A. I think it is a really beautiful place. To be able to surf and get out in the Pacific Ocean every once in a while. The hiking, all of that is amazing. I love it there. "

" Entitlement is lethal. "

" My grandfather was raising me, and in many respects, I was trying to understand what it meant to be a man. He was my role model. "

" Hamlet is a remarkably easy role. Physically it's hard because it tends to be about three hours long and you're talking the whole time. But it's a simple role and it adapts itself very well, because the thing about Hamlet is, we all are Hamlet. "

" I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women. "

" And you know, I hate to admit this, but I don't always think in terms of Shakespeare. When I eat, I do. When I'm at a restaurant, I'll think, 'Hmm, what would Macbeth have ordered?' "

" When you're in a place like New York or D.C. you just can't beat it, and it's so hard to recreate because they are both such distinctive places. "

" I'm misrepresented as a scary person. I'm not. It's all about my size and my eyebrows. "

" I have the kind of face that people want to punch. "