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" The luxury of television is that you get more than one shot at who you think the guy is that you're playing. "

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" 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. "

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

" I'm kind of one of these guys who wants to play everything once before it's all over. "

" I couldn't make it on the swimming team in high school. In fact, I got thrown off the swimming team and was forced to audition for the school play because they had at the audition about 35 girls show up and no boys, so my swimming coach suggested that I might be able to do the drama department more good than I was doing the swimming team. "

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

Self-Confidence

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

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

" 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. "

" Distortions control my self-image, like they do for a lot of us. It's irrational. "

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

" 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. "

" Let me put it this way: I definitely need to understand the villains I play. The best cause pain to anesthetize themselves against their own pain. "

" The thing that's cool about the recording booth is that it's so perfunctory, so cut-to-the-chase. "

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

" Some of the great characters that I've played had to be transformational. "

" In the early '90s, when those little art films started coming out, we were introduced to Quentin Tarantino and guys like that, and independent cinema was something that everyone wanted to be a part of. "

" Every job has a unique situational circumstance. "

" 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. "

" There are always great deals of humanity in the characters that have been offered to me. "

" I just think that there are those people that their resolve is strengthened by what it is that's keeping them down, and there are some people that will buckle under it. You never know which one is which until you get into the eighth or ninth round of the fight. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Season 4 can be deadly for a show that's been a hit show. "

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

" I love great animation. "

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

" So much of my aesthetic was formed by my dad. "

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

" I'm fully aware that things that resonate and become real hits are the exception to the rule, so much so that I've wired myself for failure. "