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“Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.”
“Every single second of extra time to work with other actors has definitely always, for me, paid off for the film. For the project. Every single extra heartbeat you could get, mutually considering the scene, was of benefit.”
“I haven't planned a reaction on anything... If you do, you've screwed up.”
“I live in the county where my mother was born and buried.”
“I'm an actor. I play roles in films and theaters. I don't act out, and I don't play people.”
“We'd like to prearrange our life on all levels. We'd prefer it to be scripted. But it's not.”
“Celebrity is a pathological sickness of the culture. Narcissists on screen being consumed by narcissists off-screen.”
“I didn't study interviews. I studied acting.”
“All I know is that my best work has come out of being committed and happy.”
“I like to work. I'm glad; I'm privileged to have work.”
“When you are a kid, you are beset by fears, and you think, 'I'll solve the fear by living forever and becoming a movie star.'”
“I don't have any artifacts of my profession in my house; the Oscar is in storage.”
“I generally try to think of what it is I want to express and then find a way of expressing it.”
“The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done.”
“I was very lucky when I was a kid - I travelled a lot and spent a lot of time in Africa, Asia and Europe. I also chant in Sanskrit.”
“The problem with Google is you have 360 degrees of omnidirectional information on a linear basis, but the algorithms for irony and ambiguity are not there. And those are the algorithms of wisdom.”
“For as privileged an actor as I have been, TV as a standard is short shrift. They have to do it so quickly that they don't stop and take a look. They just shoot. So that's one of the reasons I typically stay away from it. I think art is an act of consideration, and if you're not considering, I don't think you're really doing mankind a favor.”
“I demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either.”
“Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just trying to get in and you're given so little time to get in gently, but it's always hard.”
“I just looked at him because I want to be looking in someone's eyes when I die.”