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

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" I generally try to think of what it is I want to express and then find a way of expressing it. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists. "

" My greatest offering is my concept. It isn't my face. "

" Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just trying to get in and you're given so little time to get in gently, but it's always hard. "

" 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. "

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

" But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 don't want my children to have to wade through the crap to get to the cream, you know. I want them to be aware that I struggled to live with and tell my truth, and that it was a decent thing. "

" Defeating fear is not a light switch. For most of us, it's daily work. "

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

" Celebrity is a pathological sickness of the culture. Narcissists on screen being consumed by narcissists off-screen. "

" 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. "

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

" I like to work. I'm glad; I'm privileged to have work. "

" 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. "

" I am just as comfortable in Britain and France as I am in America... but nowhere is perfect. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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