"It's frightening and exhilarating. It's like combat. Look at the metaphors: You kill when it works; you die when it doesn't."
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"Now you can't even carry a nail clipper on a plane. Are they afraid you're going to go..."All right! Give me the plane or the b*tch loses her cuticle." ?"
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"Directing requires great discipline, that ability to be in and out at the same time. The great ones I've worked with are like generals. It's a bit like a small war on that level. The great ones have that combination of freedom and control. I'm nowhere near that. There's still so much to do as an actor. I have enough to explore with that."
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"Even evangelicals realize that Pinocchio's father was a carpenter too. That's the old joke."
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"Jamie Kilstein is amazing and I will be spreading the word. He has the spark that energized my conscience. We need more comedians kicking it hard the way he does every night"
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"Shooting in New York is the shiznit, if I may be so bold. It was great. New York is a character. People who live here know that."
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"I did an event in Washington, and it was like we lifted a sea.Immediately after [9/11], there was a stunned shock - kind of this feeling of "What do we do now?" I started performing, and there was a catharsis in the laughing. People started to be able to laugh again. Laughter can be many things - sometimes a medicine, sometimes a weapon, depending on."
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"The dramas for me allow me to explore more behavioral, deeper psychological things. But the comedies obviously allow me to explore the idea of really working off other people. I'm having more fun doing that."
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"Even when I did my Broadway show, I did 15 minutes no one had seen before, because that was the night that Michael Jackson protested about Al Sharpton bailing on him. I said, "Wow, if that man bails on you, this must be really a lost cause.""
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"Cross-country running was so beautiful with all the trails and the lake regions ... very physical and also a bit spiritual, where you could come over the mountain and all of a sudden you'd see a Buddhist landscape fog."
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"Along with the Oscars, the Academy is giving out a green card."
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"I can be trained, I can actually show you how intelligent I am, I can use a word like delicatessen and know what it means."
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"I prefer to be handcuffed at home. The idea of voice work to me is great fun, especially when it's a chance to do two different voices."
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"I just want to do movies, and I want to sell them. I don't want to link up with some product."
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"I feel like I'm a big human snot."
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"Friends come in all sizes, take it from me! Golly gee, size doesn't matter, when you want some friendly patter from a pal who is true."
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"On rides you see things that trigger ideas. And most the time it's just not doing anything but riding ... letting it all go."
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"What's true in our minds is true, whether some people know it or not."
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"In America, they really do mythologize people when they die."
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"For a while you get mad, then you get over it."
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