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" The worst bar fights I ever saw were in London. I saw a guy break a pint glass in another guy's face in a club in the Eighties. It was a gay club, too. "

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" I really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood. "

" My style was always intuitive. I never used to believe in working on your body. Anything that smacked of vanity to me was bad for your acting, but I learned that wasn't true. "

" I'm not that interested in working with impervious people. "

" I didn't think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing and still be somewhat artistic was, god help me, advertising. "

" I think that everything I've ever done at some point is part of someone else's legacy. "

" I'm terrible with big parties. "

" I'm someone who started in the theater and really couldn't stand repeating the show. My favorite part of acting is the five or six weeks of rehearsal that you get. I like doing previews; I like the opening week because my friends and family come, and then after that, I don't want to do it anymore. "

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" It's finding time for each other. That's the trick to any relationship, you know. Finding time to really be present for each other. "

" Don't hit people; don't let it get you too angry; remember that everything you do can and will be used against you. And take a breath and have some perspective. "

" Well, I don't think I've ever been a huge target for the press, and I value that to a degree, because there's a certain value for actors staying beneath the radar so they can play characters. "

" I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women. "

" Everyone assumes that novelists are smarter and more interesting. They're generally smarter and more interesting, but they're often very short. So it kind of cancels all the smart and interesting stuff out. "

" No, I grew up admiring people who played ice hockey. "

" I actually loved Winnipeg. Everyone told me I was going to hate it, but it was great. "

" It's good to overexpose yourself with work. But don't expose yourself too much with the press. "

" I've got nothing against L.A. I think it is a really beautiful place. To be able to surf and get out in the Pacific Ocean every once in a while. The hiking, all of that is amazing. I love it there. "

" My mother didn't let me see color films. I saw a lot of black-and-white films. The first time I saw Basil Rathbone, I was completely taken. To me, that was the epitome of great acting, was Basil Rathbone - not only in Sherlock Holmes, but the Sheriff of Nottingham, and all the terrible characters he had to play alongside Errol Flynn. "

" I went to school in Massachusetts at Hampshire College. "

" When my grandpa was moved to physical action, you felt utter terror. "

" Home is New York. "

" I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York. "

" And you know, I hate to admit this, but I don't always think in terms of Shakespeare. When I eat, I do. When I'm at a restaurant, I'll think, 'Hmm, what would Macbeth have ordered?' "

" I think New York will always be this incredible international crossroads, and I don't think that will ever change. "

" Some actors need to be rattled and some need to be focused. "

" I am very good with dialects, but the two that I can't do for some reason are the South African and Australian. "

" I really never thought I was that good at film. And honestly still don't. My strength is language. My background is monologues and a certain kind of Brechtian spin on theater. "

" You hear different things from different people, and they're all valid: they're all valuable. I think that's what comprises a performance is all those ideas. "

" The funny thing is that I write and I act a lot about being Jewish, but I don't really think about it as a regular person. "

" You always have to create the character from the ground up. "

" I'm kind of an obsessive-compulsive person, like, neat obsessive. "