"David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists."

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"David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists."

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"I very much prefer the balance in a scene to standing out and so you have to make a decision."

Decision

"It was the moment I learned acting is not acting out. After that light went on, I spent the rest of my life trying to figure out how to make other people realize it."

Life

"Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just trying to get in and you're given so little time to get in gently, but it's always hard."

Time

"I am so thrilled by the privilege of life, and yet at the same time I know that I have to let it go."

Time

"Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure."

Success

"Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity."

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"Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge."

Knowledge

"The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being."

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"I was held hostage and almost executed by a man who was robbing us in the middle of the night."

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"You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold."

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