Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing.
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Being a good director is knowing sometimes when not to say something.
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Political correctness has become a straightjacket.
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I’m not the best audience for that because I’m not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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As an actor, you people-watch, you observe. And the more famous you become, the sad thing is you lose the ability to do that. Instead of people-watching, you become the focus of attention.
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I’m rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.
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My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.
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I did have a knack for playing weirdos. There’s still sort of this perception of me out there as being this crazy guy.
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I still don’t have a publicist. If I’m in a film, you have an obligation to promote it, I’ll do as much as I can.
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I took a bit of a back seat, I had kids and I wanted to focus on them. There’s that period in the late ’90s, the early 2000s, where I didn’t do a great deal.
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If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would’ve liked to have been John Lennon.
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I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
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I like celluloid, I like film, I like the way that when a movie is projected it sort of breathes a little in the gate. That’s the magic of it to me.
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The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it’s a constitution that’s the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it’s the most generous nation in the world.
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I’m almost incapable of lying. I’d be a terrible spy.
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