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" This whole business feels kind of intense, like a bad fit. Round peg, square hole. But whatever, I'll take it. "

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" 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 like playing weird, kind of shady people. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I really do like a really good science fiction movie and a really good horror movie. Those are the kinds of things I really like. But, I mean, I'm not into sort of like slasher movies. I like a really good science fiction movie, which is hard to do. They don't make many really good ones any more. "

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

" 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 don't think film actors need training, really, but I needed any help I could get. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" Sometimes, I think I may be more recognizable because I'm character-looking. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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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. "

" 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. "

" I don't really have any opinion about my performance in 'Big Momma's House.' "

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

" Lead roles are fun, but I'm especially happy other, more colorful supporting stuff has come along. "

" Well, you know, when people say stuff about you, it's always really flattering. But does it mean anything to me? It's not really real to me; there's no reality to it. "

" I have the mentality of a supporting actor. "