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"I want every episode to feel like we still haven't done this right yet."
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"Even though you are on the right track - you will get run over if you just sit there."
"If you had a face like mine, you'd punch me right on the nose, and I'm just the fella to do it."
"The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well."
"Some things you know about, you know what the ingredients are - maybe not all of them. But it's up to you to put in the amount. It's up to the director to nag you until you get it right."
"This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened."
"When I sing, trouble can sit right on my shoulder and I don't even notice."
"It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right."
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"No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing."
"And then, as the years went on, I just kept moving along, busting into doors and getting roles, until I started to actually believe that what these other people were saying was true."
"I'll be working the rest of my life because I'm a character actor and don't have to worry about box office."
"All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle."
"Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that."
"I'm a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after 'Mystic Pizza', not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route."
"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."
"The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water."
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