"I know, as an actor, I don't like sharing everything with the director. And it's fine if they don't with me."
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"That's where you can find things and modulate your performance and give the other actors something fresh to respond to. We've probably all worked with actors who when it's suddenly your close up, they get sleepy. I don't like that. It's selfish acting, and I won't tolerate it."
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"After directing the first film it feels kind of tricky being back to being in front of the camera, because I've always got one eye over there, kind of thinking of what they are doing, and how the shot is being composed. I think it takes a couple of films to just get back to just being an actor."
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"It's very important to transcend places that hold us."
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"I'll be working with Ridley's [Scott] brother, Tony, again, someone who needless to say we've had a great amount of success together. I trust him - so I won't have to think about it or I'll try not to."
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"[Russel Crowe] has been through a lot and had a lot of success. No one knew who he was when I worked with him 12 years ago. He's just come off a great film in Australia- Romper Stomper - and so it was good to see him again. Obviously, I'd seen him since."
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"I didn't realise that Ridley Scott has never won an Academy Award."
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"I'm from around Tennessee. I ran away when I was 12 years old and I ain't never looked back."
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"Years ago, even prior to 9/11, I did a movie called "The Siege." I did a lot of research with the FBI and the CIA. And I was amazed at that time (I guess we might all know it now) how little information they shared with each other. So after that, I'm not surprised by anything."
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"Every punch that's thrown is mine. Every punch that's caught, I catch."
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"We rehearsed for two weeks [in "Fences"], and we taped out the whole house in the front, and the rooms, and we stood it up like a play. We tried to get off book and gave people small props."
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"It's strictly business. If I loan you $25 million, I want my money back. I don't want to hear about the social impact. That's great for you, but now I'm $25 million in the hole, so next time you come to ask me."
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"What's a celebrity anyway? Paris Hilton's a celebrity. I'm just a working actor."
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"I always think it's not what we know that's terrifying; it's what we don't know. That's sort of pervasive with everything in life."
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