"Being an actor is a much more structured life than being a musician."
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"Ive always been very comfortable in a set environment. All the collaborating going on, seeing how actors work - it all excites me."
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"This created world really helped me as an actor. It heightened everything, which made it more dangerous, more interesting and more liberating."
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"I have to say as an actor I have been inspired by so many British actors throughout the years."
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"We actually did a lot of takes on this movie [J. Edgar Hoover]. I never left the set wanting more. That's for sure. I don't know. This was a very difficult character for me and a lot of the other actors here, and at times we went and did 8 or 9 or 10 takes on a single day."
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"It's my first sort of commercial attempt, but it made sense for me because I'm not that kind of guy and I'm not going to continue to do that kind of movie."
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"When I was doing 'This Boy's Life' I wanted to be as old as Robert DeNiro and as experienced as him and have the same respect as he did in that movie."
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"Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be."
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"I think of myself more as a workhorse actor. It will be hot and cold and up and down, but no one will kick me out of the business."
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"There are some actor secrets you keep sometimes, and you want to keep."
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"Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him."
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"I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act."
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"There's no rule that you have to like Henry Rollins the musician or the actor."
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"So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor."
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"I will take the acting work when I can get it. I am not really an actor, that's always apparent but it's work and I'll take it and am always glad for it."
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"The most dangerous physicians are those born actors who imitate born physicians with a perfectly deceptive guile."
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"All behavior involves conscious or unconscious selection of particular actions out of all those which are physically possible to the actor and to those persons over whom he exercises influence and authority."
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"Everyone thinks I'm a comedian - which I am and are. I was born into a comedic family but I'm trained as an actor."
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"I think the biggest reason that actors are complete a-holes as soon as they become famous is because they forget that this a job. They think that it's about them, and it's not."
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"But really, for the most part - doing a prequel is great because you do have room to kind of free this character and how they got to where they are instead of being a slave to exactly what the previous actor did."
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