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I terribly miss - we all miss, I think - somebody like the great producer Irving Thalberg. He had a foot in both camps: He understood us creative people. And he understood the money people.

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For me, coming to work every day has turned out to be exactly what I hoped it would be.

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People think that direct address was invented by Ferris Bueller, but in fact, it wasn't. It was invented by Shakespeare.

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I believe this: If an actor wants a role or wants to work with somebody, then you do everything within reason to try to get that role. If they want you to audition, you audition. If they want you to screen-test, you screen-test. If they want you to come and tap-dance in their hallway, you tap-dance in their hallway.

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I always thought that, in a way, you want your Superman to be a total unknown.

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I love doing impressions.

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If there is one thing I object to, it's actors talking about how tough their jobs are.

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Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.

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The audience wants control. They want freedom.

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Bobby Darin was one of the first to take black musicians on the road with his band, and there were places that didn't want him to play, and he stood up to it.

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Give people what they want, when they want it, in the form they want it in, at a reasonable price, and they'll more likely pay for it rather than steal it. Well, some will still steal it, but I think we can take a bite out of piracy.

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It takes stamina to get up like an athlete every single night, seven to eight performances a week, 20 weeks in a row. And there are many young performers who only learn their craft in the two minute bits it takes to film a scene. You never learn the arc of storytelling, the arc of a character that way.

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I went through a period of great rebellion within my family, when I was about 9 or 10. I was mad, I had no focus, had no real interest in anything, and so I started to do things that were just rebellious and stupid.

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Kids aren't growing up with a sense of television as the aspirational place for their ideas.

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I'm not someone who's led my life trying to get publicity; I'd rather do my work and go home.

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Fundamentally, I like to accomplish things.

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For years, particularly with the advent of the Internet, people have been griping about lessening attention spans.

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As long as we, in the United States, continue to insist that our politicians have to spend all of their time raising millions of dollars for television ads, it will be corrupt. If we leave it up to the politicians to clean up lobbying and finance reform, nothing is going to change.

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I've been trying to take this journey over the last four years of getting away from playing manipulative and villainous characters and playing characters that are affected by what happens to them as opposed to unaffected.

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There's no doubt that some of the greatest films ever made have come from the theater. It's all a matter of finding a way to make the theater experience watchable on film.

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I actually have a number of lovely watches from the International Watch Company.

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I write a lot about my experiences and the people I meet. I've got a lot of material. But a book about me? It seems sort of odd.

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I'm aware that, from the outside, this looks like I've got quite an ego.

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Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions you'd rather not know the answers to.

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What's my favourite book? It changes all the time.

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It's always the big question in our lives if you have a lot of success. What do you do with it? Buy more houses, buy more cars, buy more stuff, be wealthy and distant and unengaged? Or do you take all that good fortune that has come towards you and spread the love, do something with it?

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My admiration for 'Mary Tyler Moore' is very, very big because they went out on top.

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I'm not going to make general comments about the British press.

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I was on a couple of scholarships. I had a job in the school administrative office. I had a job as a hat-check boy in a restaurant. I had another job as an assistant to a casting director. It took a lot to get myself enough money to put myself through Juilliard.

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When I was young, I learned very early on that I could make my mother laugh. And that was one of the greatest sounds I ever heard.

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I have never played a game in my life.

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I'm attracted to things that are challenging and fun and interesting, and it certainly seems that audiences enjoy them as well.

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I am different than some people would like me to be. I just don't buy into that the personal can be political.

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There's nothing like standing in a place and wanting nothing so much as to change but simply not being able to.

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Have we become so celebrity-obsessed that there is no longer a difference between a character and an actor? I hope not.

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I'm supposed to convince you, for two hours, that I'm somebody else. Now if you know everything about my life, if you think you've got me figured out and you think you know all my dark secrets, how am I ever going to convince you that I'm somebody else?

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