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"Once you understand that someone has Tourette and that they can't help their tics, it takes away the distraction. And you can engage your compassion. You feel for them. You embrace them."
"The Victorian era is the sexiest age for me, but I also like a woman in a pair of jeans."
"Most actors are starving. Most of us are walking around with a flashlight and tweezers looking for evidence. When you have someone that actually writes an acting role, it's rare."
"As much as they deny it, I think people want to be scared. It's a phenomenon, why people want to be scared when there is so much violence and craziness in the world. People still really enjoy being scared. It's a conundrum to me. It's hard to explain. It's an unconscious thing, really, why people like that so much."
"I guess my style is a cross between David Bowie and Clint Eastwood."
"Media runs the world, and it all changed, I think, when the debate between Kennedy and Nixon happened, and first of all we saw them on television, and that changed everything."
"My past is not pleasant; I grew up in a very tough town, Waterbury, Connecticut. I grew up in New York, too, but Waterbury was tougher."
"When I'm playing a serial killer, I'm in it. I'm not judging him. I'm not judging his environment. I'm just looking for the why. Why is he the way he is? But, there's no doubt that, if you're a good actor, you're going to take this stuff home with you."
"Sometimes you have to search for inspiration with characters, and other times, they just drop out of the sky and arrive."
"I like the Polanski stuff more than anything else. Rosemary's Baby is still one of my favorite movies of all time. The idea of her being impregnated with the devil is just so frightening."
"Dark Blue is ultimately a gritty crime drama, at its core. I don't think that is ever going to change."
"I think everything keeps changing. There was a time when television was a bad thing for actors and it meant that you could only do television, and now we see everyone does television."
"L.A. is still such a fascinating place to me, so big and diverse. It's so spread out that you can go from Zuma to downtown and there's really like 10 different towns in between."
"It's hard to find success and it's hard to find hit movies or hit TV shows and to stay relevant. I think it's a very difficult thing for actors, because a lot of us get lost, frankly."
"You never want to have a movie be derivative, because that's the worst if you ask me. I always want to be in original material, or an original idea, or an original vision, rather than a rehash of some other movie."
"To me Polanski is one of the greats in terms of psychological horror. It's just hard to top him because he's so damn good at it."
"People behave badly and people are in prison and people are on death row, and there are no excuses for everybody's behavior, but most people are coming from abuse."
"Much of the time, as an actor, you sit around waiting. Most of your life and career, you’re waiting for your agent or your manager to call you."
"Jerry Bruckheimer really is an executive producer, who obviously is the most successful producer in the history of film and television."
"I've always been fascinated by Baretta and Donny Brasco, and other undercover cops in movies."