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" 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. "

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

" There's fear or faith. If you're living by fear, then you're always looking for security. If you're living by faith, then you're always looking for freedom. "

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

" The thrill of acting is the discovery part, so it all changes, but it has to change in a way that fits what is written. You can't just wander off and get interested in your own tangent. "

" 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. "

" Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just trying to get in and you're given so little time to get in gently, but it's always hard. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I have never worked with anyone who I hold in higher esteem than Chris Menges. He's an absolute, bona fide, authentic artist. "

" You can only sit on the frustration of wanting to express something for so long. "

" 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. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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" Celebrity is a pathological sickness of the culture. Narcissists on screen being consumed by narcissists off-screen. "

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