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" The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done. "

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" I demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either. "

" I don't want my children to have to wade through the crap to get to the cream, you know. I want them to be aware that I struggled to live with and tell my truth, and that it was a decent thing. "

" I had great qualms about playing a man who was living. I've never met Walt McCandless, and I never will. "

" Woody Allen asked me to improv once. I said no. "

" Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study. "

" The enemies of acting are mood and attitude and other general homogenized disruptive entities. Whereas acting is about action - doing - and unless you can figure out a way to craft in an imaginative reality to which you don't submit, you're going to be out of control. You'll flip out. The job is to be surprised. "

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

" I am not a famous person at home - I'm just a guy here. I'm a father, I'm a companion, I'm a human being. I am not a public figure in my house; I am not a celebrity. I am not a famous person to myself - I am just a guy. "

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

" I very much prefer the balance in a scene to standing out and so you have to make a decision. "

" 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. "

" It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream. "

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

" I just looked at him because I want to be looking in someone's eyes when I die. "

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

" If you don't exercise, you don't stay strong. I like to work with talented people. "

" But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all. "

" 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. "

" The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being. "

" I have a film I want to direct. Gena Rowlands was going to do it with me a long time ago. It's about an older woman who's running a ranch in the west the old fashioned way. "

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

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

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

" Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure. "

" My first cousin, by the way, on my father's mother side was John Marshall Harlan, who was a Supreme Court justice, as was his grandson. And I think a lot of my fight and my work to struggle for fairness and the techniques of theater and in subject matter probably stems in some way from some sense I have of his issues in life. "

" Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity. "

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

" Fame... it's been a challenge, let's put it that way. It's a privilege and a responsibility, and I'm not sure I carried the responsibility well at times, which is embarrassing. And I've had to look and be disappointed in myself occasionally for how I behaved in some circumstances. "

" I have a way of synthesizing. That's what I would encourage any young person to do: take in the ideas, the conflicts, and the world. Watch and listen and live before you go public. "