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" You know, I'm really not interested in someone telling me that something's good or bad. "

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" Theater is so ephemeral, and I love that. "

" Of course it's trivial, but then most things are. "

" It's tough to figure out how do we compete in Europe and North America, when obviously a living wage for us is very different than a living wage in Indonesia. "

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Self-Discipline

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I always liked clothes; since I was very, very young, I was interested. I studied costume as part of my theatre education. "

" Most films, it doesn't matter if you see them or not. "

" Quite often - a lot of the work I had done had been extensively with women. Most especially in the theater, but also quite often in the movies. That has its own delights, and maybe pitfalls too. "

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" My life before children I don't really remember. I've heard references to it, but I really don't remember. "