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" 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. "

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" I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people. "

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

" Where did I study? I went to P.S. 6. I went to Collegiate, Middlesex, Tufts, Juilliard. "

" The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done. "

" Woody Allen asked me to improv once. I said no. "

" I was very lucky when I was a kid - I travelled a lot and spent a lot of time in Africa, Asia and Europe. I also chant in Sanskrit. "

" 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. "

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

" My first cousin, by the way, on my father's mother side was John Marshall Harlan, who was a Supreme Court justice, as was his grandson. And I think a lot of my fight and my work to struggle for fairness and the techniques of theater and in subject matter probably stems in some way from some sense I have of his issues in life. "

" I'm an actor. I play roles in films and theaters. I don't act out, and I don't play people. "

" I'm never happier than when I'm with my family. "

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

" 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. "

" The irony is that the more specific you are in the portrayal of character, the more like other people you are. In the same way, the more you think about how alone you are in this life, you realise how much a brother and sister everyone else is. "

" The funnel of deep feeling and profound satisfaction in life comes from the capacity to feel. "

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

" The thrill of acting is the discovery part, so it all changes, but it has to change in a way that fits what is written. You can't just wander off and get interested in your own tangent. "

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

" But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all. "

" Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just trying to get in and you're given so little time to get in gently, but it's always hard. "

" 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. "

" I demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either. "

" I just looked at him because I want to be looking in someone's eyes when I die. "

" 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. "

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

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

" All I know is that my best work has come out of being committed and happy. "

" Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure. "

" I am not a famous person at home - I'm just a guy here. I'm a father, I'm a companion, I'm a human being. I am not a public figure in my house; I am not a celebrity. I am not a famous person to myself - I am just a guy. "

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