My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
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life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; … it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it’s as though you aren’t there.
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When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.
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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
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No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
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War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
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I don’t talk about my beliefs too much in public probably because I feel very strongly that it’s something personal – more than personal, it’s private.
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If I don’t win, I’ll just wait until I’m nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?
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I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn’t look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy – I mean Jimmy as the character.
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Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
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What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing.
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For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
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It’s not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It’s a picture of somebody trying to figure things out.
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Everyone opens up to one another right away. That’s a terrific thing. I love that about actors. They know how personal this job is.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
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I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.
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All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.
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Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
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I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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I’ve been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity.
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In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for ‘Scientific American Frontiers.’
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I’m most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
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