"It's nice, though, getting older and being able to do different roles."
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"When you do a comedy, the goals are much clearer to me."
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"You can get pigeonholed in Hollywood and people think of you in a certain way."
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"As a movie-goer, I really like to watch all different kinds of movies and, as an actor, I always feel like I could do pretty much anything but a musical."
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"I'd always envied actors who got to play real people or got to do research. I've always just had these scripts where, I mean not in a bad way, but it was right on the page."
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"Oh, absolutely. James Caan was the first movie star I'd ever met, much less worked with. He was an important person to me and my brothers and Wes. Bottle Rocket was the first movie for all of us. As you know, back then, [Caan] was having some career changes, I think."
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"I've worked on movies that are being rewritten as you go, but you take so long and so much time doing it, that it's not really an issue knowing what's going to happen or how the movie is going to end."
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"You're just playing a role, whether it's a drama or a comedy. I find it really fun to sort of play opposite Uma."
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"I've been trying to bust into the comedy business my whole life. It's hard in Hollywood to do different things. I know this. It's a struggle."
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"The physical stuff of a movie is difficult. It's one of those things where it's just harder than it looks."
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"I would think that would be really liberating to play like a real cad or a villain or something like that, and that's something I haven't gotten the chance to do a lot."
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"As long as you're getting along, it's nice to work with someone you know well."
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"I like to think I can keep a pretty level head."
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"I don't really have a type of woman."
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"I have never, for better or worse, thought about a 'career path' or anything like that."
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"Especially with a comedy, you've got the clear cut goal of trying to make a scene funny. It's not like drama where you're trying to achieve some kind of emotion or trying to further the story along. You're trying to figure out what's the funniest way to do something."
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"To me it comes naturally, the peaks and valleys, sadness with happiness. I've definitely had periods, maybe, where I haven't been happy. Whether it's from a breakup or the good, old-fashioned blues - but I wouldn't say clinically depressed."
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"I like to think I've done a lot of different kinds of roles, but obviously I have done quite a lot of comedies."
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"To be honest, I'm not that good at staying friends. I like to move on after a relationship ends. If I break up with somebody, I don't want to see her or hear from her."
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"Sometimes when you get on a new movie you kind of how to figure out the way other people work and it can be like being the new kid in high school where you're just trying to find out where your place is on the movie or on the set."
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