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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."
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"I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it."

"Well, I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God, not you and the Church."

"We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World... and the poverty in the United States as well."

"This Administration has led us into an area without vision. Bush has no clear understanding of what is being asked of the citizens, and the military is under his direction."

"I am not the President. Instead, I hold an even higher office, that of citizen of the United States."

"We (actors) don't really change the world. We reflect it... but Washington really changes the world."

"No, no, I never despair, because George Bush is not running the universe. He may be running the United States, he may be running the military, he may be running even the world, but he is not running the universe, he is not running the human heart."

"We live in a very dysfunctional society, and this is a very, very dysfunctional Administration."

"I have been accused of being a traitor, and I have been accused of not supporting the military. Nothing could be further from the truth."
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