"When you first are in front of the camera as a young person, you'd be surprised at all the insecurities you can get."
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"I'm not much on sequels; I'm not much on remakes for the most part. I don't really like or dislike them."
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"If it hadn't been for the videocassette, I may not have had a career at all."
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"I'm not a good collector."
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"I do get cynical, but what can you do? It doesn't make any difference."
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"We all do that thing which is the best in movies - we relate."
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"It's not easy making money as an actor. It's just not an easy thing to do. There's so many that want to do it and so few opportunities to do it that it's not as easy as it would seem."
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"If they're willing to pay you what you think you're worth for it, that's why an actor goes to work. A lot of times they want to pay you a lot for a picture you don't want to do."
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"I played professional level sports. When you're playing for money, it's a whole other level."
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"A great pinot chases its own tail. You drink it and you just keep finding new tastes that go with it. My dream was to make a world-class pinot and learn more about other wines as well."
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"I hate giving away tricks, you have to create an impression and not an image. You want audiences to look at certain places and not look at other places. And when you've got the help of modern-day abilities with technology, it's a much more natural look."
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"I've never looked at my career in terms of, What haven't I done that I want to do? I just generally find a story that I think is a good one and go to work"
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"Acting was something that just came along. But I made good money, so it wasn't something I was just going to put aside and pretend it didn't exist."
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"You get burned a lot as an actor. You give somebody, you give some guy real free reign and he just doesn't know how to edit it properly. It just comes out messed up."
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"The legs feed the wolf."
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"Every director works differently but one thing's important: they must have a vision. If they don't have a vision I don't care how they work."
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"I don't really look for specific types of projects any more. I'm not taking care of a career anymore. I'm just having fun acting."
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"When I was working on my career, I was very aware of what I had done, what I wanted to do next. I'm having a good time just reading things that might be interesting to do."
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"Ultimately your job as an actor is to perform however you're being asked to perform and there's many different procedures as an actor that you're going to run into that you should be prepared for and be ready to go to work and do the best you can and give the director the best thing you can to hopefully give him things on that day that could be shot preserved and out into a canned, then when they go into the editing room that's where a movie's made."
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"If Quentin Tarantino is your writer-director then you're going to learn the words and your gonna learn why they're the words. You're gonna learn why they're the best words to say."
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