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I like to stay home. I don't want to be away shooting in Europe for six or eight months at a stretch.

My general philosophy of playing bad guys, which I've sort of done, you know, half the time is, you know, very few people who we view as bad guys get out of bed and think, 'What evil, terrible thing am I going to do today?' Most people see their motivations as justified - as, you know, justifying whatever they do.

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I had many, many mentors that I worked with. Music teachers, choir directors, directors in summer stock or in regional theater. You know, people I was able to work with repeatedly and learn from who were really sort of appropriate people for me to work with at a given time in my development as an actor.

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I play tons of authority figures, whether it's the dad or the cop or the boss. I think it's a combination of how I look, who I am.

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It's nice to be number one on the call sheet.

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Everybody does their homework, and we all come together and just knock it out. There are adjustments to make, and if you have actors who are collaborators and who really know how to listen and be in the scene together, than it works out beautifully.

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Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?

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When I got out of college, I moved to Seattle because it was the nearest big city and still didn't know if I wanted to be a composer, conductor, singer, actor. I just got day jobs and auditioned and took what came, and the theater doors were the ones opening the most.

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People evolve and it's important to not stop evolving just because you've reached 'adulthood.'

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For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.

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There's a kind of numbness, a sameness, a lack of motivation in 'good job' culture.

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Education is very important to me.

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I just saw 'Men, Women & Children' last night, and it's a devastating movie in a lot of ways, but it's so well done, so well acted.

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I started out as a singer and a musician, and I was taught that your job is just to get out of the way of Brahms or Arthur Miller or Shakespeare and convey the brilliance that they created.

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The first thing I did that was at all in the public eye, other than on stage, was 'Oz,' in which I played the head of the Aryan Brotherhood in a maximum-security prison.

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I actually have a degree in music and was aware that music was a tool used in therapy. I didn't realize how far it had come since I was in college in the mid-seventies.

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My full name's Jonathan Kimble, but my parents didn't want to call me either. So for a while, I went by Kim, which is a name for a girl or a Korean person.

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In lean times, you get plenty of sleep, and you're not flying around everywhere.

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You can't play a guy who's just a snake, because what do you draw on?

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I did Broadway shows. And I started realizing that this is actually how I'm going to make my living. So maybe I should try to do television and film and make a better living and get an occasional residual check so I can pay a mortgage someday.

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I actually was a musician in college, a composer and singer, and really intended to be the second coming of Leonard Bernstein when I got out.

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If I was doing a musical, I would never listen to the cast album, because I wanted to do my version of something.

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I do respond well to a director, a teacher - someone who doesn't accept mediocrity.

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There's another film - a little Greek movie - that hopefully is going to get some distribution here in the U.S., called 'Worlds Apart,' where I also play a 60-year-old guy who looks a lot like J.K. Simmons, who has a romantic relationship with an appropriate woman.

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If the awards buzz is happening, and it's coming from critics and people in the business and all of that, that's only more good news.

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By the time I started doing TV and film, I was in my forties, so I wasn't going to do the young up-and-comer.

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When I read the script and saw the jazz music setting, and when I read the name of the filmmaker was Damien Chazelle, I immediately got this mental image of Antoine Fuqua.

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On 'Oz' one day, I got a chunk of a camera embedded in my head, and I was passed out on the floor geysering blood while the set medic stood over me, freaking out. No help whatsoever. I ended up going to the ER and getting nine stitches in my head - real Frankenstein stitches.

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Good material is good material.

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I would like to thank the 49 actors who appear on screen in 'Whiplash' for realizing Damien Chazelle's vision so beautifully.

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I want to be like Bradley Cooper when I grow up.

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I like to stay home. I don't want to be away shooting in Europe for six or eight months at a stretch.

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I was in New York. I had been doing theater for many years, and then I got hired to a little part - they weren't calling it an extra, but I didn't have lines. It was a 'featured' part.

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Music has become so ever-present in our lives. You can't walk through a shopping mall or go into a restaurant without what we used to call Muzak.

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I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.

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I wasn't a comic book aficionado at all when I was a kid, but my cousin Weed was. Every time we went to visit him on the farm, he had two really fun things: comedy albums and comic books.

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Teaching is in my blood.

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