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Quotes by Actor

"When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move."

"My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don't put me in danger."

"He convinced me that if we're going to have honest government that you can't leave it up to the crooks and that honest people have to get involved in government. So I did. I got involved as a criminal prosecutor with the U. S. Justice Department."

"I don't believe that old cliche that good things come to those who wait. I think good things come to those who want something so bad they can't sit still."

"I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film."

"Writing is a lonely job unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach."

"I know that if I wasn't scared, something's wrong, because the thrill is what's scary."

"When the show's in production, we work for three weeks at a time and then take a week off."

"It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing."

"You could just do independent movies, but I like bigger kind of studio movies, at least some of them."

"I was the worst extra, I was 'that' guy. I was the guy on the phone trying to get the Oscar for best extra - for best background performance."

"I've grown tremendously as an actor by being there. It is comic writing the likes of which I don't know that I'll ever see again and it's been a great, great experience."

"This was a really big opportunity. This script was even mediocre. The idea was great, but Jay came on with his guys made it great and very specific. It all came together well."

"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit."

"I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored."

"I'm shooting in Brooklyn, we've got all kinds of crap going on, and I'm all alone now in a big hotel suite that you can't believe the size of it and a thing sticks in my foot and I just think it's the funniest thing that's ever happened to me."
Now,

"I went back to film work after Dobie. I went back to film work after Dobie."

"I only go to mass when somebody asks me, but when I get in trouble I call for a priest."

"And I think that if I were a for real celebrity that was recognizable everywhere, I'd just crawl under a rock and you know, have someone run over the rock with a car, or something."

"I don't look as handsome in Men in Black 2 as I did in the first one."

"I'm not gangly; I'm very coordinated. I do have a bit of a baby face. But I guess that just means I'll be working longer."
Baby,

"What we see is what they're trying to sell us. It's not true nostalgic as much as it is repeating old material because it's less expensive than new material."

"Obviously I am not the young man who came to Hollywood in 1946."

"America makes up its own mind about what it wants to see."

"He was so excited. He cut out pictures of these landscapes and neighborhoods and kind of really tried to give you a feel of the movie. It was kind of cute but at the same time it really showed his enthusiasm for it."

"I've now returned to the business again because I finally realised that I really enjoy the creative process."
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