Starting at about, I guess, forever, I’ve always looked forward to getting older. When I was 14, I couldn’t wait to be 16 and get a driver’s license.
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I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.
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My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.
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I love Los Angeles, and it’s been very good to me, but if everyone is running around telling the stories, who’s living them?
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My whole family are hams. They’re storytellers and everyone outdoes the next one.
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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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There are certain nights you and your image just aren’t in the same bed.
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Good ideas are free – or at least they should be.
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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 try to stay there long enough to do it justice, long enough so that I can at least imagine what it would be like to live there. Once I imagine that, then it’s OK for me to return home.
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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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It’s not a science when you are judging art, but we’d be remiss to say you can’t look at something and say, ‘This is more well done than that.’
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I’ve done films where we don’t rehearse, and I’ve done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals.
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I don’t choose to insulate myself in engaging in real life. Hence, the public kind of almost knows me as much through my real life that they see through the rag mags.
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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 love good film, whether it’s an independent or studio film. The independent films, I think the good ones aren’t necessarily eccentric ones but they’re the more specific ones.
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