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" There is something pleasurable for an actor to produce something and not be in it. "

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" If I play a more aggressive, stronger guy, I often go through my day feeling a bit better than when I play somebody who's not. "

" I get tired of myself pretty fast. "

" 'Capricorn One' just seemed like... wow. That was it, y'know? Nothing was ever going to be better than that movie. "

" 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 definitely had a top-notch education. "

" I don't feel like I've ever done anything - even 'Big Momma's House' - that I didn't really have some desire to do. "

" One of my favourite things growing up was 'Asterix', those books. "

" 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. "

" Most conspiracies interest me because of the people who are into them, and the lengths they'll go to expose it or the evidence they think they have. All that stuff. There's just something so beautiful to me about people who sincerely believe we never went to the moon. It gives me so much joy. "

" 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. "

" 'Rosemary's Baby' is a real New York movie, even though you wouldn't necessarily think of it as one, though I do. "

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

" 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. "

" The supporting thing can be harder to pop in and out of. The hardest thing is the people who have to come in and play, say, the bartender for a day - that's a lot harder than playing the lead role. You have to pop in and get it right. It's a lot of pressure to just pop in there and fit in and find your footing really fast. "

" I did a movie called 'American Splendor', based on the comic book writer Harvey Pekar. "

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

" I don't consider myself a very interesting person. I have the mentality of a supporting actor. "

" I've never not been proud of the work I was doing; I have nothing I have any shame about. "

" I learned how to fire a sniper rifle, which I'm sure will be useful at some point. "

" 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 have the mentality of a supporting actor. "

" I remember when I was at the first showing of 'John Dies at the End' at Sundance, and I was talking to some of the people in the standby crowd who were outside and didn't have tickets. They were just waiting in line to see if they could get in. It was this whole gang of die-hard sci-fi wacko people, and they were just fantastic. "

" 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 don't mind talking about acting. I don't have anything interesting to say about it, but it's interesting talking about it. "

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

" 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. "

" I think one of the great things about acting is the instant gratification: you just get up and start being a part of the story. The immediacy is something you get really addicted to. "

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

" With 'Duplicity', I was a little bit like, 'This isn't that hard of a movie.' This isn't like some huge brain trust of a movie. You gotta be a little bit awake to follow the plot, but it's really just a kind of light entertainment. It's like those Cary Grant movies, which are not meant to be anything other than diverting. In a nice way. "