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

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" 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. "

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

" I'm not going to party. I'm going to go do something that will make me break a sweat. "

" If you don't exercise, you don't stay strong. I like to work with talented people. "

" 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.' "

" The thrill of acting is the discovery part, so it all changes, but it has to change in a way that fits what is written. You can't just wander off and get interested in your own tangent. "

" 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. "

" Rage with panache. "

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

" Every single second of extra time to work with other actors has definitely always, for me, paid off for the film. For the project. Every single extra heartbeat you could get, mutually considering the scene, was of benefit. "

" I am not a famous person at home - I'm just a guy here. I'm a father, I'm a companion, I'm a human being. I am not a public figure in my house; I am not a celebrity. I am not a famous person to myself - I am just a guy. "

" Fame... it's been a challenge, let's put it that way. It's a privilege and a responsibility, and I'm not sure I carried the responsibility well at times, which is embarrassing. And I've had to look and be disappointed in myself occasionally for how I behaved in some circumstances. "

" I live in the county where my mother was born and buried. "

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

" My first cousin, by the way, on my father's mother side was John Marshall Harlan, who was a Supreme Court justice, as was his grandson. And I think a lot of my fight and my work to struggle for fairness and the techniques of theater and in subject matter probably stems in some way from some sense I have of his issues in life. "

" 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. "

" Where did I study? I went to P.S. 6. I went to Collegiate, Middlesex, Tufts, Juilliard. "

" I didn't study interviews. I studied acting. "

" The thing is David is also aware of everything and it's not like you're going somewhere the director is not. "

" There's fear or faith. If you're living by fear, then you're always looking for security. If you're living by faith, then you're always looking for freedom. "

" I had great qualms about playing a man who was living. I've never met Walt McCandless, and I never will. "

" I listen to XM radio because I can get so many overseas news stations. "

" All I know is that my best work has come out of being committed and happy. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 don't have any artifacts of my profession in my house; the Oscar is in storage. "

" I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily. "