"I've got a serious-looking head."
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"I'm not sure you learn anything on film sets."
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"Shoes are strange things. If you take your shoes off in a situation in which you're vulnerable, you'll feel 10 times more vulnerable."
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"I have no role models. Many heroes. I have an enormous capacity for hero worship."
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"The greater your powers of self-delusion, the greater will be the apparent efficacy of this untruth."
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"I don't do all of this as an indulgence. I do it because I'm not a good enough actor to not do it."
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"The word Amendment itself is an encouraging thing, isn't it? Because an amendment, it tells of a system of government that allows for the improvement of itself. Just move forward a little bit, one day at a time."
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"The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon."
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"I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead."
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"Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting."
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"Film has become such a central part of our culture now that I think sometimes too great a weight is placed upon it in terms of scrutiny and analysis. There's a lot of rather specious professorial stuff that swirls around films."
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"As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating."
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"I hate the domestic life."
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"I'm a warrior when it comes to pursuing roles."
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"To people who don't know me I'm defined by a number of things that people know about me that are entirely untrue."
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"I hate wasting people's time."
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"The theater is a need for me. It's a terrible attraction, something I'm compelled to do. And one derives a form of nourishment from the theater which you can never get from films. Making films weakens you in some way. With the theater, the work itself is a regenerative process."
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"My life is devoted to self-delusion - and I have a great capacity for that - but it's the thing that gives me the most pleasure, so I can't complain about it."
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"Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies."
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"I don't torture myself. And I do the work because of the pleasure involved. I'm satisfying a compulsion I find nigh-on irresistible. It's not necessarily because of the work itself. I just feel the need for a period of regeneration afterwards. Like leaving a field fallow when you've grazed too much on it. I feel depleted."
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