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"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."

"It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor."

"I view the whole thing as a collaboration. As an actor, I always found that to be the most freeing thing, when the director would collaborate with you, so that together you'd come up with something exponentially better."

"If you're going to be that kind of actor and go way out there, it's really important to take care of yourself and have a safe place, whatever that is."

"A reporter discovers, in the course of many years of interviewing celebrities, that most actors are more attractive behind a spotlight than over a spot of tea."

"But I would like to think that it's the actor that makes the difference in these cases. Not the director, not the guy that wrote the book, not the guy that adapted it for the screen, but the actor."
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"I used to say when I was working in the theater that if I ever had five seasons of a hit TV show I'd never have to worry about money and wouldn't have to do anything I didn't want to do."

"Now I take the summer off, relax, and I know that at the end of July we're gonna start another season."

"It's a lot more fun for actors to cry and rant and rave, or have a drug problem or a drinking problem."

"I think the choice of actors that we have is a little more varied and rich here in New York than in L.A."
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