"Music is a soundtrack for your life. You hear some tune and you just get swept right back to that point in your life."
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"I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else."
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"It does get old to have to always be a monkey in a zoo. I don't know what it's like any more to be anonymous."
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"I try to show compassion to people I come into contact with and try to put good out, as much good as I can. But that's my life; that's not my work. With my work, my job is to walk in another man's shoes."
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"I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings."
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"I don't really worry so much about image. I try to just live my own life, my personal life, to my own sense of morality. In terms of the kinds of characters that I play, well, they could be anything."
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"There's something therapeutic about nudity. Clothing is one of the external things about a character. Take away the Gucci or Levi's and we're all the same. But not when the nanny is around. But I will with my wife and kids."
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"They took 3-D digital photographs of my entire body. I had to pose stark naked, assuming a kind of Spider-Man position. After a minute, one of the technicians pointed to my genitals and said, Um, we're not getting enough data there ... It wasn't what you think. It turns out that the fancy digital camera doesn't pick up dark areas too well, and they were having trouble because of the hair down there. I actually had to spray on this highlighter stuff. (On having digital photos taken for the invisible man role in the film Hollow Man)"
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"You have to have something in your life that's more important than the work. People don't really like to admit that. I think that you have to find something else. I don't know what it is. Is it yoga or God or politics? For me it's just family."
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"I'm obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books."
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"Things could be worse. You remember that, and you go on with your life."
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"With a lot of actors, you've got to chip through the surface to see who the real person is."
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"There are two things that create opportunities. One is being involved with something that makes money, and the other is winning awards. And the reason that winning the awards creates the opportunities is because it gives the people who are selling the picture the opportunity to make more money."
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"Here's the thing - I mean, I don't act for statues. I really don't. The great thing about winning an award is that it creates opportunities."
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"I always watch rushes. They give me a sense of whether I'm going in the right direction. You work hard and hopefully get encouragement from what you see."
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"I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible."
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"I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic."
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"I would say invisibility would be sort of a fun power to have just to see what it was like to move through the world and not be looked at."
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"Ninety-five percent of celebrity is good."
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"There's the most resistance to an actor singing. It's like I'm being disloyal to my industry."
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