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"Bigheadedness is usually a symptom of small-mindedness."

"We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit."

"Pride destroys a man quicker than ignorance."

"To leave a man's ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet."

"What I want, it is my ego's demand. What I get, my ego is not satisfied with that."

"Darkness is an absence of light. Ego is an absence of awareness."
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"Am I now supposed to go on Oprah and cry and tell you my deepest, darkest secrets because you want to know?"

"I'm not out there trying to get press for myself nor am I trying to convince anybody that I'm living any kind of a life. I'm actually trying to convince people: I don't want you to know what I'm living, because it's none of your business."

"I'm supposed to convince you, for two hours, that I'm somebody else. Now if you know everything about my life, if you think you've got me figured out and you think you know all my dark secrets, how am I ever going to convince you that I'm somebody else?"

"As the years have gone on, I find one of the dangers of watching dailies... is you fall in love with moments."

"I open myself up every time I walk on screen and give you everything that I am. There are parts of me that are in every movie that I've done. That to me is what my job is."

"I went through a period of great rebellion within my family, when I was about 9 or 10. I was mad, I had no focus, had no real interest in anything, and so I started to do things that were just rebellious and stupid."

"If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!"

"It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth."

"Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies."
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