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"I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters."
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"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."

"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."

"This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance."

"Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad."

"People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom."
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"I hate it when people use sex as a weapon against the people who are engaging in it. It's so hypocritical."

"I take the responsibility of choosing seriously because it becomes an indelible part of your body of work. Something has to sing to me."

"Sometimes I feel limited by people's perceptions of what I can and cannot do, or what I do or don't look like."

"Acting is doing, because everything you say or do is some kind of an action, some kind of a verb. You're always connected to the other person through some kind of action."

"It's the relationships between people that are more important than the sort of far away fantasies of what the good life is, the world of supermodels and Bud ads."

"There are all kinds of other things I could do, things I would probably like, but only acting would give me emotional fulfillment."

"I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning."

"I had started off, before I ever got an acting job, working at Robert De Niro's Tribeca Productions as a reader. I was always interested in that side of the camera."
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