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“Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.”
“I don't mind talking about acting. I don't have anything interesting to say about it, but it's interesting talking about it.”
“I would probably choose supporting roles if I had to make a choice. It's actually a really hard thing to say. It's all on a role-by-role basis, ultimately. I shouldn't be so quick to say that. I feel like you're given greater license to be colorful and eccentric in supporting roles, and that's interesting to me.”
“Honestly, I never wanted to be more than a good supporting actor. Really, I enjoy it.”
“If I play a more aggressive, stronger guy, I often go through my day feeling a bit better than when I play somebody who's not.”
“One of my favourite things growing up was 'Asterix', those books.”
“I definitely have a tendency to only see the blemishes of things, and see lots of things about my acting that I don't like.”
“Well, you know, when people say stuff about you, it's always really flattering. But does it mean anything to me? It's not really real to me; there's no reality to it.”
“I wanted to play Zapruder, as he is a man you really don't know much about: a faceless, anonymous figure.”
“Do you know Don Coscarelli? 'Bubba Ho-Tep?' That's one of my favorite movies in the world. And I love the 'Phantasm' movies.”
“My father died in 1989 before I knew what I was going to do with my life. I had just graduated from college. My mother died just before 'Sideways' came out. She knew I was an actor, but she never saw me become successful.”
“I like to work - I probably work too much.”
“I was the youngest child and got a lot more freedom than my brother and sister. I used to wander, doing my own thing under the radar, but I didn't get in bad, bad trouble.”
“I don't mind being stereotyped in some way and playing certain kinds of guys, but if I can find something to occasionally get a break from that, that would be nice. And I feel like I manage to.”
“I'm clearly not Brad Pitt, and I'm never going to be Brad Pitt.”
“This whole business feels kind of intense, like a bad fit. Round peg, square hole. But whatever, I'll take it.”
“I still want to be the guy who can get on the subway and check out the freak on the subway.”
“Religion features more now in my life than it did when I was a kid - my dad rejected the Catholic church as a young man. I had no religious upbringing, but certainly, Dad was a kind of secular humanist. I don't know if he was an atheist or agnostic. I regret I didn't talk to him about it.”
“I try to avoid people as much as possible. They might change my life!”
“I don't really have any opinion about my performance in 'Big Momma's House.'”