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" There is this idea that your social media platform is the secret to success, but no one has quite proven that to be true, if you ask me. "

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" Clint Eastwood has always been a hero. "

" As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive. "

" I don't have any plans of slowing down. I love being an actor. "

" It does get old to have to always be a monkey in a zoo. I don't know what it's like any more to be anonymous. "

" I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic. "

" For my wife and I, for so many years, a lot of our identity was based on being Hollywood haters. We were like, 'We're east-coast. We're New Yorkers. This is just a place that we have to come to, but not by choice.' "

" The business that people do in LA on the social level is amazing. You go to a restaurant, bump into this guy or that guy. The next day you get a call, and they want you in their movie. "

" With a lot of actors, you've got to chip through the surface to see who the real person is. "

" We are being choked to death by the amount of plastic that we throw away. It's killing our oceans. It's entering into our bodies in the fish we eat. "

" There's this American dream to put enough away that you can golf and build a birdhouse or just be in a Barcalounger watching football all day. I'll never be that guy. And I'm not really sure the people who have that are all that happy. Our desires as a man are to work, plow ahead, and overcome conflict. "

" You can sit around and complain that Hollywood doesn't make any good movies. But you can generate your own material. So I read books. I come up with ideas. I was the producer on 'The Woodsman' to help get that off the ground. Sometimes that extends itself to directing. "

" I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views. "

" I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance. "

" I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music. "

" Before Footloose, the things I'd done weren't cute. In Diner I was an alcoholic. "

" If you're an actor, even a successful one, you're still waiting for the phone to ring. "

" Certainly, network television in general relies a little bit too much on keeping people focused and emotional and scared and pushing the envelope by building wall-to-wall music. "

" When I go home, I try to raise my children with honesty and integrity and teach them to take care of the world and of each other. "

" My family survived losing money to Bernie Madoff incredibly well compared to others. "

" I try to show compassion to people I come into contact with and try to put good out, as much good as I can. But that's my life; that's not my work. With my work, my job is to walk in another man's shoes. "

" My dad was an architect, and he wasn't a rich guy, but in our little world in Philadelphia, he was famous. He loved to see his picture in the paper. I wanted to be more famous than him. "

" I like playing complex, interesting characters. Sometimes I don't think there's much of a strong line between right and wrong for a character. Every character is somewhere on a moral spectrum. "

" There are some actor secrets you keep sometimes, and you want to keep. "

" 'Animal House' was my first movie, so I didn't have anything to compare it to. I was a sight gag more than anything else. So I can't say it was one of those things where your life changes. When the movie came out, I had to ask for the night off at the bar. "

" I was in the first 'Friday The 13th,' and that was a microbudget horror film. "

" Keep doing what you're doing. Don't be afraid of fame. "

" I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible. "

" Show me an actor who doesn't want to be famous, and I'll show you a liar. Later, you realise that there's more to it than just the acquisition of fame, and money and girls. But that is what drives them and was what drove me, initially. "