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" Where else do you find great directors? Acting is one of the places. "

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" I actually loved Winnipeg. Everyone told me I was going to hate it, but it was great. "

" I am very good with dialects, but the two that I can't do for some reason are the South African and Australian. "

" I live with an 18-month-old Jack Russell named Chicken. He moved in about 15 months ago, and it was very hard at first because I work a lot and he doesn't. "

" I'm a typically lazy person. It is sort of characteristic of actors. "

" There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet. "

" When my grandpa was moved to physical action, you felt utter terror. "

" My mother didn't let me see color films. I saw a lot of black-and-white films. The first time I saw Basil Rathbone, I was completely taken. To me, that was the epitome of great acting, was Basil Rathbone - not only in Sherlock Holmes, but the Sheriff of Nottingham, and all the terrible characters he had to play alongside Errol Flynn. "

" I really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood. "

" Style, no matter how outrageous it is, is still an expression of someone's personality. And my personality is somewhere stuck in the classics. "

" Home is New York. "

" I struggle with the idea of comparing people's work and art. The notion of giving awards or putting a competitive spin on something that is a relative art form is sort of odd to me. "

" You watch a hockey game, and the hand-eye coordination and the speed is really miraculous; how those guys track the puck alone, just following it with their eyes. "

" You can think about your career or you can think about your job. I like to think about my job. "

" I'm terrible with big parties. "

" Everyone assumes that novelists are smarter and more interesting. They're generally smarter and more interesting, but they're often very short. So it kind of cancels all the smart and interesting stuff out. "

" I went to school in Massachusetts at Hampshire College. "

" I think conflicted characters are always more interesting. "

" Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history. "

" Theater is consistent. You ride your bike to work. You get most of the day off so you can see your kids. My problem is that after three months, I go mad. One of the reasons I never thought I could do a TV show is that I hate doing the same thing over and over again. "

" If you fall in love with somebody you're working with, fine, but wait till your project is over. "

" I was always curious about motivation and intention, and really, that's a lot of what acting is. I was a little bit different. "

" The skill set for hockey is so specific to skating and if you haven't been skating as a kid it's impossible to play - and I wasn't a skater. "

" I think, the first time I played Iago at the Public Theater, I realized I had a - much to my chagrin - I realized I had an instinct for these conflicted characters, for these torn characters, for these characters who could be described as evil. I wouldn't describe them that way. "

" I am so used to being able to express myself from being an actor. So when people don't understand me, I'm just completely lost. "

" During 'Manchurian Candidate' - that role originated with Laurence Harvey, and I studied everything he did. I would never be able to reproduce that performance, but I got a lot of ideas from watching it. "

" We have to remember to respect the faith of people and maybe not the organizations or the groups that manifest around it. "

" Film is such a bizarre vehicle for acting. It's such a bizarre experience. I don't think you ever really get familiar with it. If you do get familiar with it, you're probably not that good anymore. "

" I think New York will always be this incredible international crossroads, and I don't think that will ever change. "

" I think that everything I've ever done at some point is part of someone else's legacy. "