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" Woody Allen asked me to improv once. I said no. "

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" 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. "

" You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold. "

" 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. "

" Rage with panache. "

" I have never worked with anyone who I hold in higher esteem than Chris Menges. He's an absolute, bona fide, authentic artist. "

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

" The funnel of deep feeling and profound satisfaction in life comes from the capacity to feel. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Post-adolescence reaches usually into the late 30s. "

" 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. "

" It was the moment I learned acting is not acting out. After that light went on, I spent the rest of my life trying to figure out how to make other people realize it. "

" I'm coming from the notion that acting is an art. It is not a business. It is about building characters, not about selling personalities. "

" Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study. "

" We get so intellectual that we forget that we're physical creatures. "

" The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact. "

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

" 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. "

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

" People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't. "

" I'm not there to tailor the role to me: I'm there to tailor me to the role. That guarantees me something, a precious thing, which is creativity. I'm guaranteed that I will have a creative experience, because I will go to it, not demand that it comes to me. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm an actor. I play roles in films and theaters. I don't act out, and I don't play people. "

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

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

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