"I've changed. You can't help it. Your mind starts working in a different way. You feel really scrutinised by people."
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"Acting is the only time when I truly maintain the spontaneity that I want to be present at all times."
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"I've been planted here to be a vessel for acting... That's why I'm really taking any part, regardless of how complicated it's going to be."
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"When I was very young, biology, the diversity of life, was one of my main interests. I know there's this image people have that I'm this spoiled, cocky punk of an actor. Honestly, that's not who I am. I really care that so many species have been wiped out, like genocide of entire races. I believe in the divine right of all species to survive on this planet. So I decided I want to be active as an environmentalist. I learned. I asked experts. I got active."
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"I've never been Romeo who meets a girl and falls for her immediately. It's been a much slower process for me each time I've gone into a relationship."
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"I'm never really conscious of saying, "I'm going to take on a specific role to combat a certain image in the public eye." I think that's pretty manipulative and transparent to the public anyway."
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"I spent a long time in art school so I can really draw. I'll doodle and suddenly I'll find the beginning of the movie in one picture. Usually, I start my stuff on the telephone. Right by the telephone I've got a book of doodles. When I'm on the phone, I'll be doing a drawing eventually."
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"I'm not a big dreamer. I never have been. I remember fragments of my dream, and I try to take a traditional sort of approach to researching this project and doing preparation for it."
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"If I want to go to a party with a few male friends, it doesn't mean I'm gay."
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"Obviously, we suppress things, emotions, things during the day - thoughts that we obviously haven't thought through enough, and in that state of sleep when our subconscious, or mind just sort of randomly fires off different surreal story structures, and when we wake up we should pay attention to these things."
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"What I do is whatever it takes, it takes. Sometimes you see a scene right away and a take looks great so you might print that and you might print a couple more and take elements of all three. It just depends. You're looking for the highlights. You're looking for the best elements of the scene, but preferably you'd like to have one good take that would go all the way through."
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"I insist on keeping a level head. I've maintained the same exact home life that I’ve had for 20 years. All I see is more people looking at me than before. But, you know, who cares? You just can't obsess yourself with this fame stuff."
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"At first glance, you read something on the page and it can seem one way, and you can have your decisions before you wind up on set about what that set is supposed to mean, but until you're actually there doing them, there's really no way to understand it."
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"We must all move shoulder to shoulder in a unified front to show this administration that the true majority of people are willing to vote for a cleaner environment and won't back down."
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"I want to be a jerk like the rest of my friends, and have fun, and not care about the consequences, but I just can't now."
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"I cheated a lot, because I just couldn't sit and do homework. I usually sat next to someone extremely smart."
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"Meryl Streep does things I would never have thought possible... Her presence on screen is outstanding."
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"I've just got to maintain my passion for what I do."
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"Doing what we do [filming], you have to be your own critic and judge and adjudicate as to what you do and how it turned out."
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"I didn't worry about what DeNiro thought... I went in, looked him in the eye, and got the part. I was confident, even though I'd never done anything like it before. Now I realise it was ignorant confidence-I had no idea."
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