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" The achievement is appreciation. Your ability to be surprised and awed by beauty! "

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" There's fear or faith. If you're living by fear, then you're always looking for security. If you're living by faith, then you're always looking for freedom. "

" I listen to XM radio because I can get so many overseas news stations. "

" If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've been delighted by Cannes and Toronto but I keep saying I don't know how good we're going to be received in America because that's where it's most challenging. "

" I like to work. I'm glad; I'm privileged to have work. "

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

" I live in the county where my mother was born and buried. "

" David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists. "

" I didn't study interviews. I studied acting. "

" For as privileged an actor as I have been, TV as a standard is short shrift. They have to do it so quickly that they don't stop and take a look. They just shoot. So that's one of the reasons I typically stay away from it. I think art is an act of consideration, and if you're not considering, I don't think you're really doing mankind a favor. "

" The point is that there are challenges within techniques. When you differentiate in technique, you challenge yourself; you ask yourself the same question in a new way. "

" I generally try to think of what it is I want to express and then find a way of expressing it. "

" You cut off the capacity for grief in your life, and you cut off the joy at the same time. They both come up through the same tunnel. You don't have one without the other. "

" 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'm not there to tailor the role to me: I'm there to tailor me to the role. That guarantees me something, a precious thing, which is creativity. I'm guaranteed that I will have a creative experience, because I will go to it, not demand that it comes to me. "

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

" I grew up in the South Pacific. Basically, my brothers were Guamanian. I spoke words of Guamanian long before I spoke words of English, and so I've seen a lot. You know, I've traveled in places where people don't have the benefits of American life. And so I've seen a lot of stuff. "

" Post-adolescence reaches usually into the late 30s. "

" I don't put the truth in a cage. I try to find a way to release it. "

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

" It's been a long comeback. Things were pretty dark for me. But I have a faith now, and it saves my day. I was angry with God for a long time because I was unhappy with me. I hadn't learned to make the distinction between God and my parents. But there's a peace now. In the end, I got sick and tired of being sick and tired. "

" I was a science fiction junkie for a long time. "

" I'm not going to party. I'm going to go do something that will make me break a sweat. "

" 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. "

" I need six weeks of rehearsal and women need nine months and it took me 15 years to figure that out. "

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

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