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"If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate."
Art

"The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water."
Feelings

"It doesn't need to be a number one show, it just needs to be good."
Needs

"So a failed movie is not going to ruin my career."
Career

"So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket."
Work

"When you're a child you're able to assimilate so easily into any situation. You even start talking like the people you're around. I wasn't conscious that I was so good at that until I started to truly feel like an actor."
People

"The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting."
Actor

"The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted."
Truth

"With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you improvise and create a character while the camera is rolling."
Character

"I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially."
Acting
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"That's the other thing about working on movies, the commitment is years. That's one thing that's so frustrating about the process is that it goes on and on and on for years."
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