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" No one consciously wants to destroy themselves. It always comes in a disguise. But then you have to deal with it some way. "

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" When I was a kid, my dad went to World War II. I didn't know him. I was born in '41. "

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" I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me and so when I hit the stage I just sensed freedom. I sensed, 'Here's a place that I can have all the experiences of life and not feel uncomfortable about it.' "

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" If you're older you want to tell stories about the pool of human life and living and to communicate, not only to your age group but to do an age group that can begin to understand, that has enough experience of life far beyond the taste of life. "

" Action films have a certain illogicalness to them. They're what we call, when we're working, 'exaggerated realism.' "

" You're playing a role, but you're still feeling it. You can walk away from it after 'Cut,' but if you're playing a sad or mixed-up person, it's hard to stay in that place for these longish period of times. You kind of have to check out. "

" We're social animals. We've got to get along together. It's in our nature. We're hardwired that way. "

" I've been in movies where the movie doesn't come together but the role comes together, or the movie comes together but the role doesn't come together or something like that. Something misses. It's very difficult to make it hit on all cylinders - it's just very rare. "

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" I've been called 'the voice actor.' "

" When women talk about their feelings, they're not asking for solutions. "

" You don't learn anything from success. You know, it's comfortable, it's nice, it's warm, but success just leaves you kind of feeling a little bloated. "

" If you had a cancer on your skin and had it burned it off, you'd wash it and clean it every day. "

" Actors are really working with bodies, with their minds, and with their emotions. Feelings, basically. That's what movies are about, going from one feeling to another. "

" All American males are failed athletes, and it was big time even if it was Little League. It meant a lot to you. "

" Yes, you can get addicted to exercise. "

" We're really all alone. We can't ever get inside another person's spirit, and see the world they do. So we are alone in that sense. The only way we have to communicate feelings is through words. "

" I am a good sewer. My mother taught me how to sew. "

" Women are just more oriented toward feelings - and I don't mean that in a negative way. But with a male actor and a male director, the emotional exploration can only go so far. With a female director, you can end up exploring so many more depths. "

" The truth was that, you know, there was no reason to send me to Shattuck Military School. But it was a disciplinarian school. "

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" I never fought much. It just wasn't my thing. I suppose I could, but I've never got into fights. Not a real one. "

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" I can't get any satiation. My brain is wired in such a way that I - in my research, I probably have a lack of D1 and D2 receptor sites. These are dopamine receptor sites, and satiation is a process that involves a cascade. "

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" Asking for forgiveness is just one of the most painful kind of experiences. "