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I was working with a great actress - a superior artist in every way - and she really liked Celine Dion. I tried very hard, but I couldn't understand it. I just can't listen to Celine Dion! So I guess music is a deal breaker.
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I don't walk around talking about my life and spouting my philosophy to people I don't know. I mean, if I get to know them, I'll talk for hours. I guess I like a lower-key scene.
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My job is to just express something that I want to express. And if I'm ahead or behind the curve, that's for others to decide.
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My point was that it's hard to make good films, but I'm not under any illusion that you do all the time.
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I was never into the popular school or clique or anything. Then I started doing movies when I was in high school, so then I got popular. Then the girls paid attention to you who didn't before.
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Usually I do everything reverse. I practice something in movies and then I try it in real life.
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Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.
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I try not to dwell on the past. I'm not a big go-back-and-try-to-relive-your-past kinda person.
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I think the more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you're putting yourself out there all the time, you're not holding anything back.
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New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something.
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The British keep employing me, and that makes me like them. It also makes me think they're very intelligent.
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Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess.
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You just try to get the best jobs that you can get. Sometimes I produce my own movies, so that's your own sort of vision. That helps things. I don't know what it is. Probably just circumstance. I've definitely been aware of the fact that I want to do different things.
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When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.
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I just love the process of working with other actors. It's like jamming with a musician, except it takes a little more effort to get to that place as an actor, because you have the cameras and lights and everything. But I love jamming with these people.
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Every role you do is kind of a side of yourself. That's why they give you the part.
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Hopefully as you get older you get more selfless. That would be probably a good goal. I don't know if we do, though.
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I think when you get to the point where you don't need to be in love, then you could be in love. You have to just be OK with yourself-and that's a long process.
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Acting can be pretty challenging. I can't say making a romantic comedy is challenging, but to do anything well, you have to put yourself into it.
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Our parents more or less just kind of wanted us to pursue our passions. Whatever they would have been, they would have helped light the fire. They are very liberal, artistic people, but they didn't force us into acting. They let us find our own ways.
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I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American.
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You can only really judge yourself in comparison to other people. How bad you are, but you're not as bad as someone else. So it's degrees of losing.
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Of course, I think it is legitimate for the Commander-in-Chief to be concerned for the safety of his soldiers.
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The film is not a success until it makes money. It's only good when there's a dollar figure attached to the box office.
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A lot of powerful people in Washington may think it's a crazy-leftist-fringe position to think the intellectual authors of a torture regime should be investigated and prosecuted.
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I always liked it when people go back in time to discover things about themselves, like with 'A Christmas Carol' and you're getting a tour of your life by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future.
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Roy, the guy I play in 'The Grifters,' is a guy who had a very bleak life. His mother had him at 13, and then when she was 17 or 18 and he was 4 or 5, they were trapped in a small Texas town somewhere, and she was ready to do anything to get out.
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Most movies, once the action starts there's no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there's just explosions until the end.
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I feel close to Lloyd in 'Say Anything'. He was like a super-interesting version of me. Only I'm not as good as him. Whatever part of me is romantic and optimistic, I reached into that to play Lloyd.
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But no, I don't really like romantic comedies, so I don't really care. I never go see 'em.
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Getting trapped back in the '80s, it's almost like a comic nightmare, which for me is a very real nightmare. Every time I flip through the cable, I have flashbacks.
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I don't tend to think in terms of a moral authority - be a good boy, do good things - more in terms of what feels right.
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The movies have got more corporate, they're making fewer movies in general, and those they are making are all $200-$300m tent-pole releases that eat up all the oxygen.
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Well, acting itself is a form of rebellion, always. Getting up there in front of people, telling stories - you're kind of going against the grain to begin with, wanting to do that, don't you think? Why else would you do it? Except maybe as kind of a way to affirm your very existence.
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