"The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting."

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"The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting."

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"Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it."

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

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"When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear."

Fear

"So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket."

Work

"I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially."

Acting

"The only thing I do worry about is that the more films I do the more visible I am going to become as a personality because of press and because of the sheer quantity of films."

Personality

"People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round and round. Then something will hook them and take them to their end and they can't control it."

People

"It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt."

Movies

"No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing."

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"So a failed movie is not going to ruin my career."

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"It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake."

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"Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience."

Experience