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" Turning one's back on stardom might be the highest form of common sense. One that I would aspire to be more complete with. "

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" I can always see light in any situation. It's just the way I'm made. "

" At this stage, what would be rewarding would be for audiences to want to watch. "

" When I was growing up and somebody like Robert De Niro had a movie come out, it was a cultural event. Because he had such a confidence and a single mission that was so intimate. "

" When you act in a film, you're inevitably surrounded by people you didn't choose, right down to the set painter. I like being able to pick the family I'm waking up to in the morning that's going to make this group effort to tell a story that applies to what's interesting to me at that stage in my life. "

" You try to do your best at what you're getting paid for. "

" I'm always frustrated when somebody makes a movie out of a book and they leave the book behind, or the heart of it. "

" In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor. "

" A lot of critics sometimes get into analyzing the way actors direct versus non-actors directing. And they really always miss it. It's one of those things where, by not being practitioners, they just came up with something that made sense to them. "

" I've never really been one to get what they call stage fright so much. "

" Anger can be a problem, but it has tremendous potential, too. It's just figuring out what to do with it. "

" Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking. "

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" The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different. "

" I consider myself fortunate that in my home, acting or the creative arts were a good option. This was a respected tour of duty in my family. Acting wasn't something that was left to tragic bohemians. But we weren't a family that obsessed on cinema. "

" I think you start to prepare the minute you read something. "

" I love acting, truly my favorite people are actors. "

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" I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth. "

" When I buy a Nikon camera, I have no tolerance for the instructions. I'm ready to make some mistakes using it and get some bad pictures back until I've figured it out for myself. "

" I've been a road-rat since I got my driver's licence at 16, so I've probably gone across America 20 times. "

" I choose movies that I think will speak to what's important. "

" I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one. "

" I am a limousine liberal. "

" I live in the energy and rhythm of the character. To some degree, that's true of every actor I've worked with. "

" I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that. "

" On any movie I'm involved with, I say what I think. "

" In school, I was a genius of the year preceding the year I was in, every year. "

" I just want real creative freedom without worrying about, you know, car payments. "