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"Christmas was really where I started coming into my own as a performer because I did all this stuff on my own, all this performing on my own. When other kids were outside playing, I was in my room conjuring characters and impressions and things like that."
"But most important of all, the truth, that dangerous stuff, became beautiful and more precious."
"What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings."
"People that were in my life for a long time turned sinister and tried to control me, and all kinds of weird stuff happened. But there was no conscience involved; that threw me more than anything."
"At the end of 2003, my game was complete. Shooting, defense, using the dribble, transition, midrange stuff was all there. Then it was about fine-tuning and trying to improve in each area."
"People like givers, people want to help givers. I get stuff all the time."
"You know, I gotta be honest. I have not done a lot of CGI work. I just haven't. I mean, there were hundreds of effects in Watchmen, and I probably dealt with almost none of them, because all my stuff was very practical."
"That whole thing about masturbating. Most girls, I guess nobody has to tell them, they just figure it out. I had to be told. Some girl actually had to show me a hairbrush and demonstrate exactly what to do. I just never figured that stuff out naturally."
"I love doing the action stuff. It's soooo much fun!"
"The stuff that I have perhaps become known for that's based on fact, and English statesmen shouting at each other all the time, doesn't entirely represent who I am. I am not a politics wonk."
"Yeah, in the digital world, it is so much easier to put stuff out without a great deal of paraphernalia and fanfare."
"To get the stuff out of you, especially if what you're dealing with is yourself, requires you to open up and touch tender spots. You have to be anesthetized a little bit."
"It's pointless to be critical of your stuff once it's done. I don't spend a lot of time agonising over it. It's of no importance once it's finished."
"I was very much the laymen, trying to find stuff out because I'm curious about the world."
"I have my own people that make my clothes, because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits."
"Usually you kind of give the President a pass on leaking confidential stuff."
"I never pulled a loaded pistol on anybody, but it got around that I did. It got turned into lore. It's a myth. There's so much bad gun stuff."
"The wild stuff is all so overrated. Drinking, you don't feel good all the time. There's a lot of down, a lot of misery."
"'Eraserhead' is a weird, horrible nightmare, and it doesn't narratively make sense. Stuff's happening, but you honestly feel like you're in a nightmare, and it has such disturbing imagery that it stays with you forever once you've seen it."
"I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productive, you have to constantly outdo yourself, you have to constantly outdo your neighbor - all of the stuff that creates an incredibly productive society, but also a very neurotic one."
