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" Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking. "

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" Selling a movie feels like a hustle to every bone in my body. Many actors have careers dominated by modeling. They're all over the place. It turns me off. People who are good at what they do ought to practice something bigger. "

" On any movie I'm involved with, I say what I think. "

" What happens is things come to you - director, script - and if you respond to it, it's because it's tapping into some part of what's inside you, and different roles tap into different parts. "

" When I buy a Nikon camera, I have no tolerance for the instructions. I'm ready to make some mistakes using it and get some bad pictures back until I've figured it out for myself. "

" Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father. "

" I love acting, truly my favorite people are actors. "

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" That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too. "

" Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that. "

" I consider myself fortunate that in my home, acting or the creative arts were a good option. This was a respected tour of duty in my family. Acting wasn't something that was left to tragic bohemians. But we weren't a family that obsessed on cinema. "

" I'll tell you what I probably would prefer to happen less and less: actors that I know and respect in shampoo ads. Or modeling. "

" You're always having to live more to fuel something new. It's an obligation to yourself and to the audience. The personal baggage that comes with being a known actor just adds to that struggle. "

" Craft comes into acting later rather than sooner. I was somebody who had to learn through a process - a natural actor doesn't need to. "

" If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game. "

" I think we all have light and dark inside us. "

" I've been a road-rat since I got my driver's licence at 16, so I've probably gone across America 20 times. "

" Marriage ain't easy, but it's great most of the time. "

" My favorite thing to do is not act - it's that simple. "

" I can always see light in any situation. It's just the way I'm made. "

" I think you start to prepare the minute you read something. "

" There is no shame in my saying that we all want to be loved by someone. As I look back over my life in romance, I don't feel I've ever had that. "

" I just want real creative freedom without worrying about, you know, car payments. "

" Love is a mess, at best, and I figure it can be very real in spite of all the things people try to attach to it. "

" You try to do your best at what you're getting paid for. "

" I don't consider myself specifically political, you know? I think of working as an actor as being a human thing. The concerns I have that fall into politics are human concerns. "

" The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that. "

" A lot of critics sometimes get into analyzing the way actors direct versus non-actors directing. And they really always miss it. It's one of those things where, by not being practitioners, they just came up with something that made sense to them. "

" I've never really been one to get what they call stage fright so much. "

" I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one. "

" There is a strength of character in the people who have, by and large, never experienced comfort. "