"It's the challenge of trying to evoke any kind of sympathy for a role that ordinarily we would say, "Oh, this is a bad guy" and dismiss him."
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"Today I saw a guy who looked like me in a funhouse mirror. He looked at me like, Hey, that's how I look reflected in the pond!"
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"I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was."
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"Sometimes I may be totally arrogant, sometimes I may totally be the most humble guy you've ever met, sometimes I may be in between. But that's life. Who isn't like that? What's the big deal if I had an arrogant moment."
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"On certain plays and situations I feel like I have the advantage. But sometimes I just have to not think about the size of the guy in front of me."
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"I love 'Last Call.' It took me a little bit to figure out that I wasn't going to be that guy in a suit telling monologue jokes."
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"It's important for people to realize I don't want to be the It guy. I want to crawl before I walk. I want to learn about things before I jump into them."
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"People got extremely comfortable with being able to turn on their television and see MTV say, "This guy's hot you should buy this record.""
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"Yes, okay, it's cool to be quirky, maybe, on the side. Do some puzzles, make puzzles, whatever, learn how to ride a unicycle. That's cool when it's on the side and you have a plan. What happens when you remove the plan? What you're left with is a guy who likes to do anagrams. And doesn't have a job... Sweet, that's a catch."
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"The second type you have at these parades seems to be the people who want to mislabel Hitler. Everybody in the world is Hitler. Bush is Hitler, Ashcroft is Hitler, Rumsfeld is Hitler. The only guy who isn't Hitler is the foreign guy with a mustache dropping people who disagree with him into the wood chipper. He's not Hitler."
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"Some guys look better as they get older."
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"Sometimes when you're the good guy, you're sort of trapped. "Oh, he can't say that." And even when you're playing a real person like a Steven Biko, you're sort of stuck within those confines. So yeah, bad guys do have more fun."
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"There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument."
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"You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That's magical. He's done a great thing."
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"We got no wealthy black people. We got rich people. Shaq is rich. The guy who signs his checks is wealthy."
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"Most people who'll remember me, if at all, will remember me as an action guy, which is okay. There's nothing wrong with that. But there will be a certain group which will remember me for the other films, the ones where I took a few chances. At least, I like to think so."
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"I'm a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there."
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"St.Patrick's Day is named for St. Patrick, the first guy to feed Guinness to a snake."
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"The rose goes on the front, big guy."
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"Marlon Brando said any guy can become an actor. It takes a real man to quit."
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