"Actors have an opportunity to use storytelling as a way to solve pain."
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"Without mentioning any names, I looked at pretty much every story that may come to your mind about a politician on the rise who was stopped short or dragged down by personal flaws and then became just a media storm. I see this as a thing that continues to happen in America and I wanted to say something about that."
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"I think that 'Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance' was mentally taxing, if only because I had to go to a Christmas party shortly after I had wrapped photography in Romania at two in the morning as the Ghost Rider. The invitation had a Christmas ornament on it with Ghost Rider's face on it as a tree."
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"I believe that everybody has the right to believe what they want to believe and to knock somebody's faith and religion is foolish, whatever it may be - Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism."
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"I like being at that place where you can either fall or stand. That's where I think you really have a shot at doing something truthful."
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"I'm a seeker. I'm very much a believer in science. But I do think there are times when science and mysticism intersect."
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"We do see Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi and Chow Yun Fat, but it's very rare to see the Chinese male actor in Hollywood movies, which is something I take great umbrage with. You know, my son is Asian. He may want to direct one day; he may want to be an actor like his father - and I want that to be open to him."
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"I'll speak for myself, but there's a lot of humor to be found in sarcasm and darkness. You talk to any paramedic, they survive by developing a pretty off-kilter sense of humor."
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"I don't know if my wife left me because of my drinking or I started drinking 'cause my wife left me."
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"I wanted to make an image for myself as an outlaw type. A kind of rock 'n' roll sensibility."
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"With my name in cement, I feel actualised. - On cementing his hand prints on Sunset Boulevard"
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"How do you rebel in a family of rebels?"
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"As a teenager I was more of an anarchist, but now I want people to thrive and be harmonious."
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"I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green."
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"Nobody ever thinks clearly at the airport."
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"I have eclectic tastes in the movies I want to do."
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"I know what it's like to meet someone you admire and have them be a complete jerk."
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"There are over 550 million firearms in worldwide circulation. That's one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. The only question is, how do we arm the other 11?"
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"It's important to keep the eccentric spirit alive, because when that goes, the work will go."
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"I would like to find a way to embrace what Led Zeppelin did, in filmmaking."
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