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" You have to do things people see or you don't get to do anything. "

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" I grew up in the Midwest, quite far from any ocean or any beach, a million miles. I think for kids who grew up where I did, the idea of California, surfing and beach life was so exotic and glamorous. "

" I have driven school buses, sold egg rolls and painted houses, and I have often wondered what my life would have been like if I hadn't gone into acting. Mind you, it's a great life, going around pretending you're other people and getting paid ridiculous sums of money for it. "

" The most evocative thing to me is probably when a writer and a group of performers can collectively put together something compelling that asks the really simple question: 'How do we live?' "

" Actors generally get to do things you probably shouldn't do in real life - well, at least as much as one might like to or be tempted to. Though I suppose a lot of actors just go ahead and do it, don't they? "

" I don't have a saviour or a royal family. "

" Unlike my grandfather or my brother, I've actually been able to make some money at a racetrack. "

" I think people seem to sort of associate me with danger. And I don't see that at all. "

" I only have two rules for my newly born daughter: she will dress well and never have sex. "

" Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly. "

" I find it hard to pre-plan every element of everything I do. It's not my thing. "

" I'm very much a typical midwesterner, and I don't think the condition is curable. "

" Most filmmakers' entire body of knowledge is of other movies. When they describe things, they describe them in relation to other movies. That's why we have so many cyclical movies that look like other movies. But I'm not cynical. I even go to some of those movies. "

" I'll never be the biggest kind of star; I'll be like Bob Duvall, respected as an actor but a lot of people can't identify the face. I don't have the personality of a big star, or the looks of a Mel Gibson or a Paul Newman, or the style of a George C. Scott. "

" Politics is not really my thing. "

" I don't throw things or yell. "

" 'Secretariat' was such a magnificent animal, unbelievably beautiful and powerful. It's always nice to see something that close to perfection, a reason to celebrate. "

" Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do it. And I studied it in school and I always liked it. "

" The projects I look for to produce or direct would not be ones in which I would want to act. "

" A dog that has rabies probably will do things it wouldn't do if it didn't have rabies. But that doesn't change the fact that it has rabies. "

" Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part. "

" You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one. "

" I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity. "

Self-Discipline

" The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been. "

" I'm not a Method actor. I don't believe acting should be psychodrama. I look within myself and see what I can find to play the role with. If I'm playing a blind man, I don't go around blindfolded for days. A lot of good actors would, but I don't go in for that very much. I like to just make it up as I go along. "

" When you do a really good play, the audience and the performers are looking into the same looking glass, the same microscope. And the specimen they are looking at is human life and that's why I do it, that's why I like it. "

" I'm a little bit of a fabric lunatic. "

" People always say life is short. I've never been convinced of that - mine seems to have a tendency to go on and on. "

" I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch. "

" I wasn't really raised to be the type of person to have doubts. "