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"I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker."
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"It's a very smart and heartfelt movie and that's why, I think, we're all drawn to it. We really showed up for this with this collective idea that it was really ambitious, but we felt we all really had something to gain from it."
"I've always just shown up and tried to figure out what's for lunch and am I going to get to play some racquetball that night."
"The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven."
"I was kind of like chasing my tail and trying to do the right thing, and was a little bit stupid. Or irresponsible, which is the same thing I guess. It's just been really busy and I had a lot of great opportunities."
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"I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you've done."
"With a terrible script you hustle and try to make it better. But with a good script it can be trouble because you rest on your laurels, so to speak, you think it's going to translate easily."
"When you have a good script you're almost in more trouble than when you have a terrible script."
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