"I think I've had more of a variety in what I've done than most actors."

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"I think I've had more of a variety in what I've done than most actors."

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"I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops."

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"As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary."

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"I went to Second City, where you learned to make the other actor look good so you looked good and National Lampoon, where you had to create everything out of nothing, and SNL, where you couldn't make any mistakes, and you learned what collaboration was."

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"Last summer a second unit production crew went to France and shot scenes for several of this season's episodes. They shot costumed actors in and around real castles and landmarks, we couldn't possibly have duplicated here in Hollywood."

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"Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of."

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"I've been a very lucky actor."

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"If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives."

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"I'm an actor who hates dialogue and the present day and reality."

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"If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent."

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"Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything."

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"A lot of films need planning in order to survive at all. It's part of the dog and pony show."

Order

"If a film doesn't play, people aren't going to be that nice."

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"Levi is one of the best authors I've ever read. It's hard not to have an immediate personal response to his work. He has such a quiet tone."

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"Al Michaels is a good announcer. I think Keith Jackson is a terrific announcer. I always loved him on Monday Night Football. I never understood why they got rid of him."

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"The romance stuff is easy. A sex scene... that's hard, because you don't know what to do. Those scenes are awkward."

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"I've done nudity. I'm an exhibitionist. It doesn't matter."

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"In my first film, Five Corners, I played a very scary, violent crazed character, and it exposed me to a lot of directors."

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"Games sometimes can reveal things. To watch someone in movement, unconscious movement, can be very stimulating and revealing, whether they win or not."

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"My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in."

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