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" The beauty of comedy is you can really push things. Hopefully, you're with people with a sense of humor and can relate to it. "

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" Being anonymous is a great luxury. It's a big loss to lose that. Mostly, the loss is the ability to observe others without being observed yourself. And as an actor, that is your key tool. "

" I've been producing projects, and I hope that It's inevitable one day that I direct a film. I have a lot of things I want to do. "

" You'd be surprised how difficult it is relinquish a cell phone. "

" It would be terribly boring to be earnest. "

" I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I'd try to reenact it. "

" Life is very complicated. I look to collaborate with artistic people and to go into an endeavor without judgment and to hopefully be treated with the same. "

" My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years. "

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" I think there's a lot of catastrophe in this world and a lot of cruelty and a lot of carelessness. "

" It's interesting, winning an Academy Award as a young man... life-changing, but I'm just me within that. It's been very helpful for my career, but I'm trying to stay on the path I was on before. "

" I was depressed for a year after 'The Pianist,' and I don't suffer from that, generally. It wasn't just a depression; it was a mourning. "

" All commitments require sacrifice and hardship. "

" It's interesting because you feel on the one hand, we understand people from what the say, and in another sense, you'd think that you'd be able to convey more through dialogue. "

" In my work as an actor, I have been given even greater insights and have been guided towards empathy and a consciousness of those who are less fortunate. "

" I grew up in Queens in N.Y., and in parts of my neighbourhood, there were a lot of Italian Americans and a lot of people who were either affiliated with nefarious people or had seen so many movies that they were embodying that. "

" I love the accessibility that my great nation affords us, but it is virtually inescapable for most people in America, and many places abroad, to rely on inexpensive yet unhealthy meals as a main source of sustenance. "

" I grew up without a lot of money and my parents grew up with far less money. And that's kept me in line. Really in line. "

" I always had an actor within me. "

" Obviously I'm not there to pick up anybody, but I'm not afraid to hang out in a predominantly gay establishment. "

" Painting, music, photography, and visual art have been creative forms of expression for me for decades. "

" The only reason to do a television series is to make it successful. And if it is successful, that's a six or seven year commitment. "

" Maybe I'm a bit superstitious, but I don't like to talk about anything until I've done it. "

" War is chaotic and when you start having a larger scale film and you have a lot of safety protocols and choreography, I would imagine it becomes more difficult. "

" It's great when people appreciate your work, but I don't know how seriously to take it. The amazing thing is that I found something so early that I can support myself doing, and that can even be extremely lucrative, but I love it either way. "