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" We'd like to prearrange our life on all levels. We'd prefer it to be scripted. But it's not. "

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" The enemies of acting are mood and attitude and other general homogenized disruptive entities. Whereas acting is about action - doing - and unless you can figure out a way to craft in an imaginative reality to which you don't submit, you're going to be out of control. You'll flip out. The job is to be surprised. "

" I like to work. I'm glad; I'm privileged to have work. "

" I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people. "

" I need six weeks of rehearsal and women need nine months and it took me 15 years to figure that out. "

" The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact. "

" The achievement is appreciation. Your ability to be surprised and awed by beauty! "

" I was a science fiction junkie for a long time. "

" If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character. "

" For as privileged an actor as I have been, TV as a standard is short shrift. They have to do it so quickly that they don't stop and take a look. They just shoot. So that's one of the reasons I typically stay away from it. I think art is an act of consideration, and if you're not considering, I don't think you're really doing mankind a favor. "

" But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all. "

" I have a way of synthesizing. That's what I would encourage any young person to do: take in the ideas, the conflicts, and the world. Watch and listen and live before you go public. "

" Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity. "

" People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't. "

" Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure. "

" I demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either. "

" I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process. "

" What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement. "

" You cut off the capacity for grief in your life, and you cut off the joy at the same time. They both come up through the same tunnel. You don't have one without the other. "

" When you are a kid, you are beset by fears, and you think, 'I'll solve the fear by living forever and becoming a movie star.' "

" Woody Allen asked me to improv once. I said no. "

" I have a film I want to direct. Gena Rowlands was going to do it with me a long time ago. It's about an older woman who's running a ranch in the west the old fashioned way. "

" I grew up in the South Pacific. Basically, my brothers were Guamanian. I spoke words of Guamanian long before I spoke words of English, and so I've seen a lot. You know, I've traveled in places where people don't have the benefits of American life. And so I've seen a lot of stuff. "

" Celebrity is a pathological sickness of the culture. Narcissists on screen being consumed by narcissists off-screen. "

" You get older, and people start passing away. And so if you're lucky - my mom died very young, for instance, and I have friends who died very young - but the point being that, I think if you're awake, you know you're going to pass on. And that the real treasure in life is the long term - relationships that you really value. "

" I've been delighted by Cannes and Toronto but I keep saying I don't know how good we're going to be received in America because that's where it's most challenging. "

" I'm never happier than when I'm with my family. "

" I am so thrilled by the privilege of life, and yet at the same time I know that I have to let it go. "

" Post-adolescence reaches usually into the late 30s. "