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" The white male is one of the easiest things to be. There's always a job; there's always something for you to do. "

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" I suppose there must be some way in which I'm compelled to show some side of myself - or of people - that's paranoid and fraught and beleaguered and downtrodden, just as Tom Cruise wants to show that he's terrifyingly upbeat and terrifyingly heroic all the time. "

" It is because my dad died suddenly that I became an actor. I thought, I'm going to make money doing this thing I enjoy. "

" I like to work - I probably work too much. "

" Do you know Don Coscarelli? 'Bubba Ho-Tep?' That's one of my favorite movies in the world. And I love the 'Phantasm' movies. "

" I'm pretty easy to get along with on set, but I'm probably hard on myself. "

" I consider myself an atheist. My wife is Jewish. And I'm fine with my son being raised as a Jew. He's learning Hebrew and is really into it. I will talk to my own son about my atheism when the time is right. But there's a great tradition of Jewish atheism, there are no better atheists in the world than the Jews. "

" I'm clearly not Brad Pitt, and I'm never going to be Brad Pitt. "

" I'm not a big wine guy. And bars, I never go to bars anymore. It's such a drag, man. "

" My father died in 1989 before I knew what I was going to do with my life. I had just graduated from college. My mother died just before 'Sideways' came out. She knew I was an actor, but she never saw me become successful. "

" I was more used to acting onstage, for a long time. I don't know, maybe I was temperamentally more suited to stage stuff. And there are things about the stage that I miss in a lot of ways. "

" It'd be disingenuous to say I don't like attention - I'm an actor for God's sake - and it's flattering and all, but attention was never my big goal. I just like to work and have a good time. "

" Religion features more now in my life than it did when I was a kid - my dad rejected the Catholic church as a young man. I had no religious upbringing, but certainly, Dad was a kind of secular humanist. I don't know if he was an atheist or agnostic. I regret I didn't talk to him about it. "

" Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background. "

" I never thought I would have any particular career in movies at all. "

" I would probably choose supporting roles if I had to make a choice. It's actually a really hard thing to say. It's all on a role-by-role basis, ultimately. I shouldn't be so quick to say that. I feel like you're given greater license to be colorful and eccentric in supporting roles, and that's interesting to me. "

" I find that the crazy narcissists, the selfish loons are often the most fun to be around, weirdly. "

" I wanted to play Zapruder, as he is a man you really don't know much about: a faceless, anonymous figure. "

" I have the mentality of a supporting actor. "

" I definitely have a tendency to only see the blemishes of things, and see lots of things about my acting that I don't like. "

" Now, actors get so familiarized with Eastern Europe. I never imagined I'd get as familiar with Budapest and Prague and places like that in my life. "

" I still want to be the guy who can get on the subway and check out the freak on the subway. "

" Honestly, I never wanted to be more than a good supporting actor. Really, I enjoy it. "

" I was an English major at Yale, but I did do undergraduate theater there. And I went to the graduate school for acting. "

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" I get tired of myself pretty fast. "

" I was the youngest child and got a lot more freedom than my brother and sister. I used to wander, doing my own thing under the radar, but I didn't get in bad, bad trouble. "

" Am I really cool? You're telling me I'm cool? Well, that's good to hear. "

" I definitely had a top-notch education. "

" I don't mind being stereotyped in some way and playing certain kinds of guys, but if I can find something to occasionally get a break from that, that would be nice. And I feel like I manage to. "

" Growing up, I didn't know where I was headed, except to the grave or maybe to the gutter. I went through wanting to do a lot of things, but acting wasn't one of them. "

" I worked with J. T. Walsh - it was one of the best experiences I ever had - a fantastic actor and a great guy. I was in the last movie that he did: 'The Negotiator.' He died a couple of months after that. He was great. "