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“I still really like newspapers. I'm gonna feel really sad when they go. Or not - maybe I'll be dead.”
“I always think that I'm not going to be right for a movie or that there's someone else who can do it better.”
“Actors will say 'yes' to anything.”
“There are times when I consciously give the character something physical - a walk, the way he sits, how he talks, or his lack of physicality, which is like a physicality.”
“If I'm going to meditate, there is a little church up in Montecito, California. It's an old Spanish mission, actually. I find it comforting in there.”
“Westerns were always my favorite things when I was little. And it always bothered me when cowboys were too clean in movies, or when they wore their guns like they had an outfit on. It always worked better when a guy looked sweaty and smelly; I hadda believe, I hadda believe that.”
“I had a real strong fantasy life as a kid. But then you grow up and think about real jobs.”
“In our family, my brothers and I shared toys. In other words, just because it was mine didn't mean my brothers and I didn't play with it.”
“I saw 'Wild,' and I thought, 'Wow, this is a lot of things, but one of the things is it's a therapist's dream and a climate-change denier's nightmare.'”
“I played a lot of sports when I was a kid so I get in that ballgame mindset of being really, really respectful, but at same time saying to yourself, 'Don't back down a single inch, hang with these guys if you can.' If they throw it high and tight you have to stand in there, you can't take yourself out of that moment.”
“I have some tremendous, tremendously loving, generous friends all over the world.”
“I'm usually pretty good in front of a live audience. I usually like that.”
“From the time I was a kid, I was crazy about anything having to do with the West. I'd look at all of these photos of Montana, and they all seemed so magical and majestic. I just wanted to go west, and I finally did it when I was barely 21. I went off to volunteer at a Navajo reservation in New Mexico.”
“Weirdly, for someone who wanted to be funny, I didn't like a lot of attention.”
“I used to work on a survey crew, because my dad was an engineer, but he was also a surveyor.”
“My first manager, he had left Germany when he was five, but he would joke about the Nazis. And I'd laugh, but I'd look at him, and he was the first one who told me, 'You know, funny is a powerful thing; it's a wonderful weapon.'”
“If you look at what I do, there's no consistency. The consistency is that there is no consistency. I do projects that are good and not so good.”
“I worked at a PBS station called WQED in Pittsburgh.”
“If I didn't do 'Batman,' 'Birdman' wouldn't have happened.”
“I've got a statue of St. Francis in my front yard, and I'm not even a practicing Catholic.”