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" The thing is David is also aware of everything and it's not like you're going somewhere the director is not. "

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

" 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 am so thrilled by the privilege of life, and yet at the same time I know that I have to let it go. "

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

" I am constantly asked, 'What's the difference between acting in the theater and acting in film?' The only answer I can give is the space - you adapt to the space. But acting is acting. "

" All I know is that my best work has come out of being committed and happy. "

" You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold. "

" We get so intellectual that we forget that we're physical creatures. "

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

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

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

" I'm an actor. I play roles in films and theaters. I don't act out, and I don't play people. "

" Defeating fear is not a light switch. For most of us, it's daily work. "

" I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily. "

" 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. "

" You get older, and people start passing away. And so if you're lucky - my mom died very young, for instance, and I have friends who died very young - but the point being that, I think if you're awake, you know you're going to pass on. And that the real treasure in life is the long term - relationships that you really value. "

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

" When you are a kid, you are beset by fears, and you think, 'I'll solve the fear by living forever and becoming a movie star.' "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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