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

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" I cannot tell you that I ever fell in love with the theater as an audience. I fell in love with the theater as an actor for a period of time, but I have struggled as an audience, and I struggle more now than then. I was always a movie guy. "

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

" Haiti kind of gets a hold of you. "

" At this stage, what would be rewarding would be for audiences to want to watch. "

" Putting something in a movie because it's in the news doesn't make it political to me. If you're not going outside the same old, same old, if you're not pushing the envelope, then you're not doing anything. A good movie is a political thing. "

" 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. "

" In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor. "

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

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

" I'm a huge Woody Allen fan. Good movie, bad movie, it doesn't matter - I just like his movies. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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

" 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 live in the energy and rhythm of the character. To some degree, that's true of every actor I've worked with. "

" Anger can be a problem, but it has tremendous potential, too. It's just figuring out what to do with it. "

" I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Yeah, I had a tremendous time shooting in Nebraska. I like that state a lot, all over it. "

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

" I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies. "

" I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point. "

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

" There's not a lot of good movies being made. "

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

" I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that. "

" I had a house burn down once, and everything in life burned, except my family, and it was so liberating. I didn't have a bad moment about it. It sort of reinvigorated my interest in a lot of things. "