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I didn't study interviews. I studied acting.
Woody Allen asked me to improv once. I said no.
I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.
David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists.
My greatest offering is my concept. It isn't my face.
I like to work. I'm glad; I'm privileged to have work.
I live in the county where my mother was born and buried.
I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process
The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done
I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process.
What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement.
The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done.
I don't put the truth in a cage. I try to find a way to release it.
I demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either.
Defeating fear is not a light switch. For most of us, it's daily work.
I listen to XM radio because I can get so many overseas news stations.
The greatest single human gift is the ability to chase down our dreams.
I haven't planned a reaction on anything... If you do, you've screwed up.
All I know is that my best work has come out of being committed and happy.
Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study.
I just looked at him because I want to be looking in someone's eyes when I die.
You can only sit on the frustration of wanting to express something for so long.
The achievement is appreciation. Your ability to be surprised and awed by beauty!
I don't have any artifacts of my profession in my house; the Oscar is in storage.
Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.
If you don't exercise, you don't stay strong. I like to work with talented people.
And I don't want to use my troubles as an example of what to do and what not to do.
Also CSPAN is really the great treasure of the media as far as getting information.
I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people
I'm not going to party. I'm going to go do something that will make me break a sweat.
I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people.
Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure
Where did I study? I went to P.S. 6. I went to Collegiate, Middlesex, Tufts, Juilliard.
Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.
I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily.
I'm an actor. I play roles in films and theaters. I don't act out, and I don't play people.
I am just as comfortable in Britain and France as I am in America... but nowhere is perfect.
I very much prefer the balance in a scene to standing out and so you have to make a decision
We'd like to prearrange our life on all levels. We'd prefer it to be scripted. But it's not.
I very much prefer the balance in a scene to standing out and so you have to make a decision.
The funnel of deep feeling and profound satisfaction in life comes from the capacity to feel.
I've made a couple of films that were a little too wide and non-specific - like 'The Doctor.'
I was held hostage and almost executed by a man who was robbing us in the middle of the night.
I generally try to think of what it is I want to express and then find a way of expressing it.
It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.
If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character
I need six weeks of rehearsal and women need nine months and it took me 15 years to figure that out
I am so thrilled by the privilege of life, and yet at the same time I know that I have to let it go.
I need six weeks of rehearsal and women need nine months and it took me 15 years to figure that out.
But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all.