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" What people have thought of me, of the turns that I've taken, has never really played into my decisions. "

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" When you have an actor on set who is playing themselves in a movie that is about the most cathartic, most traumatizing event of their lives, you don't even have to mention that. "

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" Privacy is paradise. "

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" I've never had a career of that kind of box office power. I've always learned the hard way. "

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" I would say, yeah, I'm a spiritual person. "

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" I don't offer advice to actors only because I've seen actors become successful through ways that would never even occur to me or that wouldn't work for me. But this has worked for me: Never memorizing a scene. "

" New Yorkers have an intimacy with Trump, man. I mean, for decades. "

" I think that 'Saving Grace' is pretty funny. I think that the show and the woman have a pretty great sense of humor. "

" Do I trust myself? Sometimes I don't even know, but I can only just kind of throw my hat in the ring and hope for the best. Depending on how much I trust the other people is how much freedom I can allow myself to have on that particular set. "

" When the family gets together once a year in Georgia for New Year's Eve, we listen to music, all kinds of music. That's what we do. "

" In my career, I've never been a box office name. Granted, a couple of my movies have made a lot of money, but I'd do other movies which make very little money, or they're not seen that much. "

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" The unknown makes people uncomfortable. And even living in a city that's as cosmopolitan as New York City is, there's so many things I don't know about other cultures, even though I encounter other cultures - maybe even 18 or 19 of them - when I get on a subway car every day. "

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