What’s the biggest compliment is if I read a review and it’s exactly what I wrote down in my diary before ever filming it. That’s really cool. That’s the biggest signifier of closing the gaps.
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There’s two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.
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I think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.
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Good ideas are free – or at least they should be.
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When I first starting making money, when I first made my first six-digits.
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I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin’ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.
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I’m a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.
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You don’t play characters that are celebrities – you play guys who know what to do when their septic tank’s blocked.
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You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.
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My whole family are hams. They’re storytellers and everyone outdoes the next one.
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What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and ‘going’ with this girl, ‘Is this true love?’
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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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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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We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.
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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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I didn’t want anybody’s name on my backside. I personally don’t like to wear clothing that is named for somebody or has someone’s likeness all over it.
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