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"Hollywood hasn't aggressively pursued me. Neither have I aggressively pursued Hollywood."
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"Everyone is treating it like a Hollywood story. In Madison, it's a neighborhood story."

"I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard."

"Hollywood is a place where the stars twinkle until they wrinkle."

"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."

"Very narrow areas of expertise can be very productive. Develop your own profile. Develop your own niche."

"Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks."

"I tell you, I'm really not what you'd call into your basic kink, even though we do live in Hollywood, which is a little bit like living in a box of granola."
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"My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often with actors, it's a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where's the substance?"

"I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent."

"I'm not patient, and some things drive me crazy. In my work, I get incredibly upset when people don't get it right or don't respect others' needs."

"I don't want to sound smug but I am reasonably satisfied with how it's gone. I think it's fine."

"Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy is when it works on this scale. Because it is psychologically very real."

"I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird."
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