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"The only work I did for the next five years after splitting from Vincent was work I'd already lined up."

"I've done my best to work from a place of humility - always looking over your shoulder saying, "Does this suck?" and I think that's a good way to work. The other way to work is where you start to think, "I'm on fire, I'm amazing!" and I don't think that's the way to work."

"There is no room in the world, as you say, for second rate work."

"The best way to begin genuine bipartisanship to make America stronger is to work together on the real crises facing our country, not to manufacture an artificial crisis to serve a special interest agenda out of touch with the needs of Americans."
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"I was a dog in a past life. Really. I'll be walking down the street and dogs will do a sort of double take. Like, Hey, I know him."

"We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men."

"If I like the story and it's well written, and it's a character I want to play and they'll pay me, then I decide to do it."

"We thought sex was free. Sex is not free. There's a price to be paid emotionally, physically, even legally. Sex isn't a casual thing. It's a huge thing."

"I got an agent. He said, what do you wanna do, and I said, I want an Oscar nomination. That's your job, that's what I'm paying you for. And I got it."

"When Fargo came out, I hired a publicist for the first time in my life. I thought, if ever I was going to make it, that was then."

"When I was in New York, I was making a living. We had a summer house and a car that I could put in a garage. That's something for a stage actor."
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