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" Of course, actors look forward to the day when they can do a big courtroom scene. "

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" When I was a kid, I was obsessed with this idea of opening a restaurant back in Indiana on a little pond. The guests would order their dinner and then take a little boat out with a colored flag on the front of it. When the matching color of the flag on their boat went up on a flag pole, their dinner was ready! "

" I don't consider a lot of actors that I really admire movie stars. "

" I have always been interested in the concept of ruin. "

" We all have to lead double lives, not just celebrities. The face we put on publicly with our jobs and certain situations. I think that's part of the human condition. "

" I have a very well organized closet. "

" Whenever Hollywood gets involved with real life events, certain liberties have to be taken. "

" I've never felt like my career has been on fire. "

" Audiences don't ever disappoint me, in the sense that movies I feel really good about, they usually feel really good about too. "

" Setting goals can blind you to opportunities. You might be trying to get to point C. When opportunity B comes, you don't even look at it because you're going straight to C. "

" I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role. "

" You don't get to pick your partners in families; you get assigned a seat at the table. "

" My family moved - first to Washington, D.C., and then, in the spring of 1975, to Lebanon, where my father worked as a diplomat at the American embassy. My parents were enthusiastic about the move, so my older brother and I felt like we were off to some place kind of cool. "

" The automotive corporations, including Ford, I think are in the business of trying to make cars that people will drive. "

" If you're working on a movie, you want it to be projected on the largest tapestry possible, and the sound to be perfect, and for that kind of communal experience of the movies to take place for it. "

" Good scripts and interesting stories are hard enough to find. "

" Well, I don't know what image people have of me. "

" I do give a great deal of forethought and zone in on character and all sorts of things like that. Never before have I just stuffed something away in the back cupboard of my brain because it was just such a crazy concept. "

" Sometimes I look back and think, 'Good. I'd love to go in and bang out a good episode of 'Talk Soup' today.' "

" I was 12 when my parents told me we were moving to Lebanon. I remember thinking, 'Leba-who?' I had absolutely no concept of the place. "

" I like complicated characters. "

" I'm happy to report that everybody whose face I've wanted to punch on Earth has already been punched. "

" I like the classics! "

" Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust. "

" There's times when I'll see a show, or something cooking on TV, and think, 'That can really be fun when it's working.' But it's a grind. I did that at NBC, it was five days a week. I was doing 'Talk Soup' and 'Later' at the same time. It's a hard job, more difficult than people realize. "

" I'm a terrible procrastinator. When we go to the airport, if they're not literally closing the door behind my sweaty, hyperventilating body, I feel I've been there too long. "

" It's not easy to tell a story about writers and make that feel like a complete story and an interesting story. "

" You learn more about a person from the people around that person than you do from the person themselves. We all have our own ideas of who we are that may or may not be justified, and you can really find out a heck of a lot more accurately from the people around an individual. "

" The irony is that you can't use real rain to make movies. "

" Talking about corporations - they're so big. There's not a person at a corporation. "

" I was just a quiet kid, really. I wasn't the class clown at all. "