See, ‘A Time to Kill’ was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.
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I’ve been in a couple of weddings where the coolest people that were the most day before so mellow and then the day of the wedding freaking out.
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My last name is originally Irish. I’m not exactly sure whereabouts it’s from, but I’ve got family branches that were traced back there.
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I’m a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.
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I think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.
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I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.
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I’ve read a lot of really great characters in some really crappy stories, where I said, like, ‘Boy I could shine here, but the story sucks.’ I don’t want to be part of that.
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The unsaid rule for living in a trailer park is: ‘If the door’s shut, don’t come a-knockin.’ But if it’s open and you’re walkin’ by, feel free to say, ‘Hello.’
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One of the great pleasures of going to see a Daniel Day-Lewis film: you haven’t seen him in five years. Where have you been?
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Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.
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To bring a healthy child into this world, raise them right and watch them grow is the biggest miracle there is.
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We spend so much time sublimatin’, thinkin’ about, ‘What am I going to have for lunch, dinner?’
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When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention.
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You do that and you go through some withdrawals in the beginning. You start thinking, ‘Oh, do I need to do this? Do I need to do that?’ You forget that we were doing just fine with the payphone.
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I’d rather go around in a good pair of jeans that you don’t wash every day, because they get more and more comfortable.
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If you can be mentally stimulated by the workout and find out how to get through it, it’s more fun.
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