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" Oh, I'm a big-mouth. I said a lot of things. "

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" Selling a movie feels like a hustle to every bone in my body. Many actors have careers dominated by modeling. They're all over the place. It turns me off. People who are good at what they do ought to practice something bigger. "

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" There is no shame in my saying that we all want to be loved by someone. As I look back over my life in romance, I don't feel I've ever had that. "

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" I live in the energy and rhythm of the character. To some degree, that's true of every actor I've worked with. "

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" Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that. "

" When I buy a Nikon camera, I have no tolerance for the instructions. I'm ready to make some mistakes using it and get some bad pictures back until I've figured it out for myself. "

" I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies. "

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" I think life's an irrational obsession. "

" The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that. "

" Turning one's back on stardom might be the highest form of common sense. One that I would aspire to be more complete with. "

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" In school, I was a genius of the year preceding the year I was in, every year. "

" Putting something in a movie because it's in the news doesn't make it political to me. If you're not going outside the same old, same old, if you're not pushing the envelope, then you're not doing anything. A good movie is a political thing. "

" Craft comes into acting later rather than sooner. I was somebody who had to learn through a process - a natural actor doesn't need to. "

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" In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor. "

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