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Quotes
I almost forgot what it's like to be proud of my government.
It's
dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing.
Acting? It's a longstanding
compulsion I've had since I was about five or six years old. I can
literally identify the moment it struck me. I went to see a play [If I
Were a Princess] in which a babysitter of mine [Betsy True, who later
acted on Broadway] was performing. I was completely shell-shocked by the
magic of this little community-theater play; it just riveted me.
I don't smoke and I don't want
to smoke. I am not a fan of gratuitous smoking in films.
Life, like poker has an
element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.
If I ever have to stop taking
the subway, I'm gonna have a heart attack.
Fame is very corrosive and you
have to guard very strictly against it.
I've never felt any particular
encroachment of the 'celebrity' stuff into my life.
I'm an actor and, each time
out, I'm trying to convince the audience that I'm this character. Every
little thing that people know about you as a person impedes your ability
to achieve that kind of terrific suspension of disbelief that happens
when an audience goes with an actor and character [he's] playing.
The more you can create that
magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.
It's a nice position to be in;
I'm lucky. At the same time, all the excitement of that has been put
into stark perspective ... In some ways, the highs of it have been
blunted, which in a way, is a gift.
First of all, you never make
all things for all people and can't always pander to the broadest
denominator. I keep an eye toward doing the themes that interest me. Do
they move me? Interest me? Make me think? When I run across something
that is provocative in an unsettling way, it appeals to me.
People wrestle sometimes
making movies, and I think that conflict is a very essential thing. I
think a lot of very happy productions have produced a lot of very banal
movies.
I'm not interested in making
movies for everybody. I like making movies for myself and my friends and
people with my sensibility.
I always felt that acting was
an escape, like having the secret key to every door and permission to go
into any realm and soak it up. I enjoy that free pass.
Nobody makes me uncomfortable
here. It's a place where you can be eternally anonymous. - the reason he
loves living in New York City
In fact, the United States
today keeps on making the same sort of mistakes. We force those methods
we think are useful on a few countries, hoping to make a few changes.
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