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"What I've got to do now is let them judge me for who I am as an actor and not for my notoriety."
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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 started to shortcircuit because I had high aspirations for the film. I never told anybody that."

"I had a bonding problem when I went off and boxed for five years. I was over in Europe and Asia fighting because I wanted to do something different; I was tired of acting. But the thing is, when I was done doing that, I couldn't get a job."

"I did think for many, many years that because of my ability I could beat the system. And I was wrong."

"It's the formulaic studio movies the make money, and when they do, the actors in them are automatically movie stars."

"I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise."

"Years ago I realized that maybe I made mistake, politically, when I turned a lot of that stuff down. I would go off to obscure places and make movies that six people went to see."

"I had some things I had to fix. It took me 14 years to do it. But it was never really fun back in the day to work with directors who were a lot older and were like authoritarian and talking to you like that."

"All I am hoping for is to be able to work - I think my best work is still ahead of me - I think all that I have been through in the last several years have only made me a better, more interesting actor."

"It was the most fun I've ever had on a movie. It was one of the happiest times in my life. I was living in New York, and I really enjoyed acting at the time. Also, it's funny because that was also the time when I went downhill."
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