"My kids don't watch my movies. What I want to do is go home and hug my kids, talk to them and engage with them."
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"I'd always tried not to worry about the size of the role or the size of the film."
"I'd really like to get the girl, shoot the gun, drive the car, have fun. I even have these kind of action dreams, where I'm the action guy."
"I'll be honest with you. My kids don't watch my movies and never have. I can maybe name a film one hand that they've seen, actually, all the way through."
"L.A. kind of scares me."
"Some people have therapy, some people are alcoholics or they're in AA. Some people jump out of planes on weekends or find ways to release this kind of thing. And for me, it's acting. I find acting very therapeutic for whatever it is."
"My dad was an architect, and he wasn't a rich guy, but in our little world in Philadelphia he was famous. He loved to see his picture in the paper. I wanted to be more famous than him."
"There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content."
"I want to see the numbers that prove that show-business marriages are any less successful than other marriages. It's just very public when they fail."
"My family survived losing money to Bernie Madoff incredibly well compared to others."
"The hardest gig there is in entertainment is to be the lead in an hour show, especially if it's a show that's blood and guts and fighting. It's rough. I love to work, but to do something different is really exciting."
"Even the people that support Bush aren't happy with the way things are going in Iraq."
"After so many years it's embarrassing to admit that I don't honestly know how much I want to be directed."
"A lot of times, the script is the thing they care about least."
"A lot of people believe in reading reviews. If I get too focused on some detail of what they've said about me, I'm going to end up shooting myself in the foot."
"I don't have to do the lead. If I dig a part, I'll do it."
"I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though."
"Doing the press, it's part of my job, so I do it with a smile on my face, but I'm not comfortable in the hot seat."
"I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again - I just have to find a story I want to tell."
"I did all the dialect work, all my character work completely by myself."