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"Yeah, there's a tendency to get pigeonholed in Hollywood."
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"Everyone is treating it like a Hollywood story. In Madison, it's a neighborhood story."
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"I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal."
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"I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard."
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"There's a rule in Hollywood: stay away from water and stay away from snow, and I had both."
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"Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath."
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"I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood."
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"Hollywood is a place where the stars twinkle until they wrinkle."
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"But Tommy Lee Jones is just smooth. He's just the real deal. I'm captivated by him because there's so little of that in Hollywood, and he just embodies it."
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"Very narrow areas of expertise can be very productive. Develop your own profile. Develop your own niche."
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"Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks."
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"But, the relationships that I see work - As long as they're telling the truth, and saying the things that you don't ever want to have to say to another human being."
Work

"We'll engage in pretty extreme violence in the world but, you know, the one thing that comes to humans as easily as eating or breathing or sleeping, is sex."
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"I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself."
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"I was bartending for a long time and going on auditions and was constantly being rebuffed."
Time

"My personal belief is that you carry your own water in a relationship. If you see a girl and you think she's hot, that's a very human reaction, but you don't go and tell your spouse that, you know? So in one way it's how you behave."
Belief

"I think we've all been kind of... everyone's been hurt, everyone's felt loss, everyone has exultation, everyone has a need to be loved, or to have lost love, so when you play a character, you're pulling out those little threads and turning them up a bit."
Love

"Literally, I think I've quit acting three or four times, only for a few days. Maybe for a few weeks."
Acting

"As we're bombarded with the imagery that we are and now, post 9-11, it's hard not to get hardened by the world and the amount of violence that's allowed to be shown to kids these days."
Kids

"I come from a traditional theater background."
Theatre

"People use the Method as a shield; it shields them from being vulnerable. I hear all these young actors who are like, 'I'm Method, I'm gonna go live in the house, you know, I totally get it, I've done it, I've been there', but one thing I know is it kills spontaneity."
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