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It's always fun to play cops and robbers.
People love to be scared. I guess it's a primal deal.
What am I going to wear to the Emmys? Something with a tie.
It's easy to be quick on the draw when no one has got real bullets.
Kids on the set tend to be a pain, and if they're not, their parents are.
Sometimes in life if you wanna do something good, you gotta do something bad.
I hate to tell you, but racism is alive and well in a lot of parts of the world.
I think at this point in my life, I'd like to play more good guys than bad guys.
My survival skills are very good for Hollywood. Beyond that, I'm not really sure.
Sometimes, people aren't as consciously aware of their decisions as they should be.
You know, what a producer does is one of the great mysteries in life, so anyone can be one.
A rice cooker has changed my life. The overnight-oatmeal deal is a big win at the Olyphant house.
I'd like to think I'm a little more easygoing than the character on 'Deadwood,' without question.
I'm not looking for answers when I show up to the set. I'm just asking the questions, over and over.
As the saying goes, Bruce Jenner is a millionaire, and Mark Spitz is a dentist. It's the wrong sport.
A lot of actors, we aren't that special; you get a well-written scene, and it's virtually actor-proof.
You're never quite sure, when you first get something if you really have a sense of what an opportunity it is.
On 'Justified', we're driving all around Southern California trying to find a location that we can call Kentucky.
On 'Justified,' we're driving all around Southern California trying to find a location that we can call Kentucky.
I think that always, as an actor, I don't want to overstep or pretend that I'm doing anything more than I'm doing.
In my mind, I'm hilarious, so I would love to do some comedy. But, I'm not exactly sure my perspective is a healthy one.
I like my job. That's become very clear to me. I know how to pretend to do things that I otherwise didn't know how to do.
I punch a lot of guys on set. It's much easier than in real life as your hands don't hurt afterwards. The key is that you miss.
I can't get enough of 'Pulp Fiction.' I just love it; it still holds up. And it didn't win Best Picture, by the way. Didn't win.
My roles don't centre around drugs at all! Shadiness is different - it's drama. We're making movies! You've gotta have conflict.
I can't root for the Lakers. I grew up in northern California, so I spent many of my young adult years rooting against the Lakers.
Usually, in romantic comedies, you end up sacrificing a great deal of the complexity - you know, just two attractive people and a good soundtrack.
Like any good parent you are trying to get the kid in a position where he is stronger and more powerful, and able to achieve things that you couldn't.
I've been working for a long time and I've just really been allowed to work, with very little of the baggage and the pressures that can come with my job.
At the end of the day, the job is to tell the story that you promised to tell and do it in the most entertaining and perhaps surprising way you can think of.
It's changed throughout the years, but at one time I was a really big bubble gum ice cream fan. I'd spit the bubble gum pieces in a cup and then collect them.
Directing? It's an appealing thought, but as far as I can tell, it's a lot of work. Producing is easier. You can tell someone else what to do and then go home.
If I were to direct an episode, then there would be no one for me to blame, and that's not any fun. It's more about sitting in the back seat and trying to drive.
It's very rare that you can be in a career for as long as I have and still feel like you're constantly learning and coming at it from an almost childlike perspective.
You know, after filming the movie the book was still just as big. I think it was actually bigger. I think Stephen King went back and wrote extra pages. He's fantastic.
Being an actor: that's a pretty big net. That's a big playing field. The Screen Actors' Guild is filled with many, many, many, many people and vastly different careers.
I didn't inherit any great success and the problems that came with it, and yet I was able to keep working and supporting myself and later a family. I'm crazy fortunate.
I've always sort of admired and respected one's ability to be comfortable with other people's discomfort or, you know, their being comfortable making other people uncomfortable.
Um, accidents happen. Especially if there's a co-star that you're not that fond of - you might 'accidentally' deck him. But no, I'm a professional. I'm just saying that can happen.
I'm attracted to roles that are unpredictable, and if I can get my hands on something like that, I'm thrilled. I like performances where you don't know what's coming, moment to moment.
If Martin Scorsese calls, I am available. And then there the ones, well, you can just run down the list - any of those Oscar-nominated films, they have amazing directors across the board.
Larry Kasdan has made some of my favorite movies of all time so just to be working with him was a pleasure. Now that I have, I not only respect his work but I just love and respect him as a person.
I had a Dan Fouts Nike poster with 'The Bomb Squad' on my wall as a kid. I was also a huge Larry Bird fan. One of my proudest art achievements is a papier-mache eagle decked out head-to-toe in Celtics gear.
The only time we got sugary cereal was when my mom went away for the weekend and she bought us Frosted Flakes because she wanted us to behave. Otherwise, we were eating shredded wheat, granola, or Grape Nuts.
There's not much to do in Atlanta, so the cast went to the gym together, went shopping together, and dinner was always a group thing. It's that whole summer-camp experience that making movies tends to be anyway.
I've had lots of parts in movies that I've never seen. I mean no disrespect to them. It was really fun to go act, but I'm not calling my friends and saying, 'I couldn't be more proud of this picture. You should go see it.
I've had lots of parts in movies that I've never seen. I mean no disrespect to them. It was really fun to go act, but I'm not calling my friends and saying, 'I couldn't be more proud of this picture. You should go see it.'
I don't get recognized that much. That's the best part of it. I tend to get things like, 'You sound a lot like that guy on 'Deadwood.' And that's lovely. I've been very fortunate. No giggling, screaming girls. None of that.
There's so many great Western films. Let's see, 'Red River,' any of those Henry Fonda movies are fantastic. Any of those John Ford movies are fantastic. I love all the Eastwood 'Man With No Name' movies, John Wayne, 'True Grit.'
Honestly, I feel like I spent the last 10 years just trying to work, just get my hands on the best material I could. I'd like to say that it was quite calculated and genius, my ability to take one step forward and two steps back.