I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.
AARON ECKHARTBut I guess I like playing flawed guys ’cause it gives a place for the characters to go.
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I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.
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I’m always fascinated with how a person becomes a good quality person, a productive person, and how it happened to me, because I was a terror.
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Yeah, but there’s nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.
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Funerals are important rituals. They don’t just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.
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Right now, I have to admit, that I’m more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.
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A true measure of strength is to use your hands to incapacitate somebody.
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Filmmaking is a difficult process. There are the logistics of making a film. You have to do your part, and then change the entire thing around to do someone else’s part. A lot of the magic is lost, in between that, and you have to figure out how to get it back.
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You can go left, you can go right, I don’t give a damn. Just make a decision.
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Well, I’ve thought many times when my career was in the toilet, that I was going to have to seriously consider getting another job, I don’t know what I’d do.
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I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn’t look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there’s only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.
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Yeah, I’d like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.
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Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.
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But I guess I like playing flawed guys ’cause it gives a place for the characters to go.
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I wanted to do a war movie, a western and an alien movie. In reality, there are a lot of ugly things happening in the world.
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You have respect and reverence for your characters and the fact that you’re going to epitomize that person for the rest of their lives. They’re going to be judged based on your performance by millions of people. You have a certain responsibility.
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