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Evil changes everybody!
I've never tried to be something I'm not.
So a failed movie is not going to ruin my career.
I never was happy with the job I did in 'Ed Wood.'
I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
Frank Miller and David Mack are incredible artists.
The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
The search for the truth is not for the faint-hearted.
I've never played a master thief. And I think I am one.
I read Spider-Man, and that's how I knew about Wilson Fisk.
The Whole Wide World is the first movie I've ever produced.
Everybody's motivation comes from the core of who they are.
Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.
Then I did Mystic Pizza, just to do something I wasn't fat in.
When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear.
I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.
But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.
Like De Niro. He's one of the best character actors we have ever had.
I want every episode to feel like we still haven't done this right yet.
What kind of recognition do I deserve? I don't deserve any recognition.
The more you are known, the more difficult it is to hide behind characters.
This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.
The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101.
I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially.
Unless you look like Brad Pitt, it's really hard to have full control of your character.
At our best, it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year, so there are some clunkers.
No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing.
When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.
And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor.
Until I got 'Full Metal Jacket,' I was doing Off-Off-Broadway plays with three people in the audience.
It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.
The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water.
I'll be working the rest of my life because I'm a character actor and don't have to worry about box office.
Our show is different, because it's not about law and order, it's about psychology, the intent of somebody.
I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to.
When you're acting, it should be the most important thing that's going on. But when you're not, leave it alone.
The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting.
To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.
So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.
It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
Doing 'Law & Order' for so long, my fan base was, like, men and women my age, and then doing 'Daredevil', my whole audience has changed. It's cool.
My 22-year-old [son] can see everything I've done, but my 15-year-old hasn't been able to see anything, at all. But yeah, I hope I'm a super cool dad.
Im a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after Mystic Pizza, not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route.
I'm a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after 'Mystic Pizza', not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route.
With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you improvise and create a character while the camera is rolling.
The only thing I do worry about is that the more films I do the more visible I am going to become as a personality because of press and because of the sheer quantity of films.
And then, as the years went on, I just kept moving along, busting into doors and getting roles, until I started to actually believe that what these other people were saying was true.
My partner Dan Ireland wants me to direct, and I read a lot of scripts - some good enough that I could see myself. But then it's like, so what? Who cares? Let someone else direct it.
When I was younger, it was about doing something that made me nervous. Now, it's for many different reasons. I've had the opportunity to have fun. I don't know why that is, but I like it.