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" Somebody who doesn't care if they live or die is the most dangerous human being on earth. "

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" I actually think it's harder to play vulnerability, because you're having to delve deeper into portions of your own psyche, what it is that makes you human. "

" I've never been pigeonholed and I've experienced so many different kinds of skin - what man will do and won't do, what you should do and shouldn't do. This is what's exciting about being an actor; where philosophy majors sit in classrooms or write books about human behavior, we're actually acting them out in front of cameras. "

" I feel as though my criteria are based more on how challenging the role is, it doesn't have to fit into any particular profile, is it something that I've never done before, and is it something that I feel like I can really feel challenged and therefore fully engaged in, and that's when the work gets to be the most fun. "

" The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don't even care about my career anymore. "

" Fearless people are interesting to watch. "

" I lost 90 pounds and my blood pressure went down to a normal level and the salt in my urine disappeared. And that was when I had to make the transition from fat character actor to thin character actor. "

" Well, I don't have an agenda. "

" I've been a professional actor for almost 40 years. "

" You know, I don't read the blogs, or go on the internet, and I really just don't know what people are saying because... well I guess I'm afraid to. "

" Yeah, it's nice to get paid for therapy rather than having to pay $240 an hour for it. "

" Living off the grid and being kind of an outlaw brings a dangerous reality. "

" Independent film is almost nonexistent right now, because all the distributers that used to love to put out these little art films are all out of business right now, because it costs so much to open a movie. "

" I'm very happy. "

" Really, I was such a late bloomer, I really didn't learn how to be me until I was in my late '40s, which is when I started playing roles that were closer to me. "

" Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants, one unexpected event crashing into another, with no pattern or reason, and then you finally reach a point, around my age, where you spend more time than ever looking back. Why did this happen? Look where that led? You see the shape of things. "

" Every job has a unique situational circumstance. "

" I'm thankful to be breathing, on this side of the grass. Whatever comes, comes. "

" I like to believe that everyone is born with the same skill set, and that it is the influences that one comes upon. "

" I will not do a role that I don't think I can do, that I'm not interested in, where there's no humanity, that doesn't have any kind of handle for me at all because I know I'll just stink the joint up. "

" You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor. "

" You can change the circumstances but you can never change man's inner nature. "

" I don't ever want to be comfortable with anything I'm doing. "

" It's really disgusting what Hollywood can do to a guy. "

" I don't think that I've had a career like anyone else's, but there are hosts and hosts of actors whose careers I admire. "

" My self-confidence didn't come from my appearance, it came from other things that I did. But certainly not my appearance. "

Self-Confidence

" If something strikes me as insane and unjust, I cannot tolerate that. "

" I think in the early part of my career, the roles were so disparate that it never gave anybody an opportunity to understand my essence and what I would be good at doing, as opposed to what I would not be good at doing, so these little moments of beautiful things that were happening to me were consistent, but very few and very far between. "

" You back a big cat into a corner and somebody is going to get bloody. "

" Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees. "