There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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