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

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I just looked at him because I want to be looking in someone's eyes when I die. "

" The point is that there are challenges within techniques. When you differentiate in technique, you challenge yourself; you ask yourself the same question in a new way. "

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

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

" I was very lucky when I was a kid - I travelled a lot and spent a lot of time in Africa, Asia and Europe. I also chant in Sanskrit. "

" I am constantly asked, 'What's the difference between acting in the theater and acting in film?' The only answer I can give is the space - you adapt to the space. But acting is acting. "

" The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being. "

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

" Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge. "

" 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. "

" I've made a couple of films that were a little too wide and non-specific - like 'The Doctor.' "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" You can only sit on the frustration of wanting to express something for so long. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I was held hostage and almost executed by a man who was robbing us in the middle of the night. "

" The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done. "