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" The office of the presidency is what's important, no matter who's in it. "

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" When 'Deadwood' came along, it was totally like Shakespeare. The long speeches were like soliloquies. If one phrase of a monologue was out of whack, the entire one-page speech didn't work. "

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" I like to think of myself as fairly intellectual. "

" I've always felt if you followed a real private detective around, it would be boring. "

" I've auditioned five or six times. I'm not very good at it. "

" We all want to pretend that there isn't evil in the world. We all want to pretend that there aren't people trying to take us out and different things like that. "

" Before I accept a job, I always talk to folks about it. 'Why does he kill these 22 people?' If they say, 'What difference does it make?' I know we have nothing more to talk about. A character has to be three-dimensional. "

" I come prepared when I come to work. Not just knowing the lines, but I think I know something about what I do. "

" I like to do things that are about relationships, work with quality people, and tell a different kind of story. "

" Sometimes, I feel like directors look at me and say, 'I want to put that boy in the jungle. I want to hurt him.' "

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" I think I'm pretty politically informed, and I find myself watching Senate hearings on C-SPAN. "

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" The first 10 years I was a professional actor, I did Shakespeare. "

" I have always been attracted to good scripts and try hard to make characters as believable as possible. That means trying to figure out how they would react to situations, what they eat, think, and feel. "

" When I first came to Hollywood, I played about as many guys who save the day and get the girl as I played heavies. It's just that heavies are more interesting and last in people's minds. "

" We have real cliched ideas of what prison life is like. It is not a happy place. It's a desperate, sad situation. "

" I'm not going to make my living out of beating my head against somebody else. "

" I was raised a proper Southern boy. "

" You don't do classics with a Texas accent. "

" I've got a family, and I love them, and I want them to have the best opportunities in the best country in the world, and I think we have to fight for it. "

" If I rob a gas station, I'm going to get 15 years. If I steal $400 million on Wall Street, I start plea-bargaining. "

" Actors have far fewer choices than the public thinks they do. "

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" I'm really enjoying the character now, but I don't want to just be Philip Marlowe. I wouldn't mind playing him every couple of years, perhaps, as a kind of open franchise - you know? "

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" When I'm out there, it's just me. Nobody's controlling me, and I can do whatever I want to do. I'm my own man. "