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" We're living through the twilight of American economic dominance. "

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" There's only so far you can take a relationship before you got to get into things that are too serious or over the top. "

" If you're trying to learn how to act from a class, you're analyzing the teachers' movements and their intricacies, and it becomes like a pantomime of you wanting to be them, and that's wrong. Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin. It's your own imagination, and your own version of it. "

" In my parents' generation, rebellion was pop culture. It's not anymore. "

" It's very weird because the 'It' guy usually is not the 'It' guy next year or even a guy that anyone is talking about. "

" I'm trying to find a way to eat up time without being destructive, 'cause that's my go-to, it seems. "

" I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work. "

" I was planning on going to Yale to theater school. "

" I'm not an Adonis, that's for damn sure. I've never really thought of myself that way, and it doesn't matter to me. My favorite actors aren't Adonises. Dustin Hoffman is a flawed-looking man; he's amazing to me. Tom Hanks is flawed-looking; people love him. Same with Gene Hackman. "

" My first car, I got it in an auction at my temple. It was an '86 Volvo that I got for 500 bucks, and then wound up throwing $10,000 into the stereo system and put TVs in the foot rests. It was the most ridiculous Volvo you'd ever seen, but I had never had money before and I was out of my mind. "

" You never really meet a human being until you live with them or know them for awhile, so this is my clown and they understand that and so these interviews don't bother them. "

" If I could meet my mother and marry her, I would. I would be with my mother now, if she weren't my mother, as sick as that sounds. "

" I'm just selfish. I have to be for what I do. "

" My family, my parents are hippies. "

" You can't buy back your respect; you can't buy back your career. You only get one, so I don't want to mess that up. "

" I've never been able to learn from other people's mistakes - I'm not that smart - so I usually learn by trial by fire. "

" There's never been a parent in my life. "

" I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful. "

" No, I was an unknown when I walked in that room. He didn't know who I was from a fly on the wall. "

" The hardest thing in acting is going from child actor to adult actor. It's taken me a long time. "

" I think the audience is pretty intelligent. "

" I have a very nappy, curly head. "

" I've been in fights, but that doesn't make me cool or like a tough guy or more interesting actor, I'm not proud of it. "

" To be an actor, a true actor, you have to be brokenhearted. "

" We did this two-week boot camp before we filmed the movie. I got to know everybody in the group and we became friends. We got really tight throughout those two weeks. "

" I'm a little territorial and defensive. "

" Nobody strives to lose. "

" Most actors on most days don't think they're worthy. "

" I got accepted at Yale but never went. "

" Talent is to actors what luck is to card players. It's not really anything; it's just a fictitious word that people have created and labeled things. Talent is like, you know, I never really believed in talent, I believed in drive and determination and preparation, but talent is sort of like luck. "