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"I went to Second City, where you learned to make the other actor look good so you looked good and National Lampoon, where you had to create everything out of nothing, and SNL, where you couldn't make any mistakes, and you learned what collaboration was."
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"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."
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"You know, whatever happens between the two of us that's created when we come together as actors is not something I think we can explain."
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"I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right."
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"I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director."
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"I'm an actor who hates dialogue and the present day and reality."
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"Indeed, the actor's lot is a much harder one than that of the director's, from one simple standpoint: The actor has to play the eight shows a week."
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"We all perform our lives in a way. And the actor is a perfect metaphor to get at that theme of 'how do we find our authentic selves?' And that we all - whether we're actors or not - perform ourselves. As a way of searching. As a way of fumbling around and trying to say, is this my voice? Is this who I am?"
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"In those days I was mortified, because I was a serious actor in my own mind, and then all of a sudden I'm this hunk."
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"I never said, 'I'm going to be a big star.' I said, 'I'm going to be a good actor.' And that took the pressure off."
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"The role of a do-gooder is not what actors call a fat part."
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"In Japan, you have no idea what they are saying, and they can't help you either. Nothing makes any sense. They're very polite, but you feel like a joke is being played on you the entire time you're there."
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"I went to Second City, where you learned to make the other actor look good so you looked good and National Lampoon, where you had to create everything out of nothing, and SNL, where you couldn't make any mistakes, and you learned what collaboration was."
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"Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one."
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"I don't want to be that guy mumbling into his drink at a bar."
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"I don't know how this guy knew how much money I was making. I didn't know how much money I was making."
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"I think all phases of one's career are serious if you take it seriously no matter if you are doing high profile dramatic pieces or not."
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"I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job."
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"Yeah, I think that's sort of the American way. And it's also the Polish way, it turns out."
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"I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do."
People
"The studios don't seem to foster good writing. They're not so interested in that, but they're more interested in what worked most recently. They're definitely very serious about making money, and that's not a wrong thing, but you don't have to make money the same way all the time."
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