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"If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my first choice was an actor, but if I couldn't be that, I'd want to be a superhero."
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"I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right."
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"We have too many actors for the jobs available."
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"Michael Caine is a movie star, but he's also a great actor. I can't say that about every movie star. It's the concentration he has."
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"Chris Cooper is one of my favorite actors in the world. I've seen him in most everything he's done."
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"I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy."
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"Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he's terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he's a terrific actor."
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"I would have started the National Actors Theatre 30 years earlier."
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"A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors."
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"I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing."
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"That's how I like to do it with actors, have them really go for it and I'll tell them when it's too much. It's always easier to bring it back then to push it further."
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"I'm not really afraid of the dark, except if I'm walking. The thing that scares me the most is the possibility of walking into a wall and busting my lip."
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"If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my first choice was an actor, but if I couldn't be that, I'd want to be a superhero."
Actor
"It was interesting to do a completely fictional piece. You know, Saving Private Ryan was not a fictional piece! So the challenge was: How do you incorporate real emotions? How do you incorporate aspects that people are going to be able to identify with?"
People
"We all deal with being unfairly judged."
Being
"You break her heart, I'll break your neck."
Heart
"I was walking around with the babies so much that when I got to the Sidney Lumet picture, I would be on set in between takes and I'd be rocking back and forth. Just standing like this rocking back and forth, and Sidney would say, Why are you walking like that in between takes?"
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"The whole year I was in LA I got into telemarketing and learned how to make money. Five years later that skill helped me make my first film."
Money
"What was bizarre, when I was younger, I never watched TV. I would rather watch a movie 100 times than to watch a TV show, just to find another nuance. I can't tell you how many times I've watched 'On the Waterfront', just to find a flaw so that I can learn and try to improve my thing."
Bizarre
"The idea of exploring character relations and their development over a decade has to be appealing for any actor who cherishes his craft."
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"I shaved my head about 15 years ago and the first time I shaved it, I started running my hand through my hair and it was very therapeutic."
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