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"I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially."
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"At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?"

"I feel I'm two people: I have my interest in acting and I have a lot of other political interests I'd like to pursue."

"Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week."

"What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn't you, and figure out why they were sad and what they wanted, what they dreamed."

"My favorite way of getting out of doing chores is by acting like I'm asleep. But it never works."

"I have been taking classes and I'm familiar with stage, but I'm not as familiar with acting on camera."
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"It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt."


"The only thing I do worry about is that the more films I do the more visible I am going to become as a personality because of press and because of the sheer quantity of films."


"At our best, it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year, so there are some clunkers."


"My partner Dan Ireland wants me to direct, and I read a lot of scripts - some good enough that I could see myself. But then it's like, so what? Who cares? Let someone else direct it."


"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."


"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."


"And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor."
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