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"I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama; there's no device, It's just about a human being."
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"I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film."
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"I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? It's wonderful, isn't it?"
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"The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed."
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"I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean."
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"I think acting is only one part of the piece of the movie. I'ts an important piece, but I'd like to be involved in all the other aspects of making movies."
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"I've made so many movies playing a hooker that they don't pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser."
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"I've played heavies for years and years and years. I was bald. I came to Hollywood. I did a play about junk. I was a pusher, so I played pushers for years and years and years. I did war movies and things like that."
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"I think you kind of hope for people to gush over movies, but I think the opposite way is great sometimes, too. I'd rather have a movie that you're angry about and that you're talking about the next day, than something you forget about when the popcorn goes into the trash."
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"I mean, the whole idea of movies was it was special to go to see - you went to a movie theater to see something that was magical and amazing, in a very special location."
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"Everybody wants blockbusters. I like to see a few pictures now and then that have to do with people and have relationships, and that's what I want to do films about. I don't want to see these sci-fi movies, and I don't want to do one of those. I don't understand it."
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"In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right."
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"I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it."
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"I'm Irish. I think about death all the time."
Death
"We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We're in a race against time, until we run out of money."
Money
"I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation."
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"Acting is everybody's favorite second job."
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"Just let the wardrobe do the acting."
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"I'm a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film."
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"I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away."
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"When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women."
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