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One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you're an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too.

Adult Fear Father Realize
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I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated.

Complicated Humans Happy Loyal
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The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be - and when they're not, we cry.

Cry Instead Know People
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I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in.

Always Being Dream Believed
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I feel I have to work hard to nurture whatever talent I have as an actor. I feel like it's not natural to me. So I don't take it for granted... What I think is my natural ability - which is writing - I think I totally take that for granted.

Ability Actor Feel Granted
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Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

Anxiety Creativity Need Out
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People think celebrities don't have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It's like you've traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country.

Country Death Human Land
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Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it.

Close Deal Fame Fear
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Sex is great until you die, but it's never as great as it was when you were a kid, when it was a mystery.

Die Great Kid Mystery
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You're raising a kid and you give it food and shelter and, most importantly, you give it the feeling that it's special. I think people react to celebrities like that - I mean, they treat celebrities like children.

Celebrities Children Feeling Food
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For hundreds of years, that was the major form of entertainment: The grown-ups sat around and watched the kids play. Now they sit around and watch the television. The actors are the kids.

Actor Around Form Major
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One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you.

Acting Nice Open People
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I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something; I think that's human nature.

Nature Time Human Back
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There are certain things I learned when I first started learning about acting, to try and place the character physically and emotionally. And the way you place them emotionally is often with humor.

Humor Acting Often Certain
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At one time there were voiceover artists, now there are celebrity voiceover artists. It's unfortunate because these people need the money less than the voiceover artist.

Artist Money Celebrity Time
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People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts.

Always Characters Hurts Love
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What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

Arrogance Mad Makes Pretension
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I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it.
Patience Skill Think Wish
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Approaching a part or thinking about taking a part, I never think, 'Is that person like me?'

Never Part Person Taking
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I'll instinctively know that I identify with a character.

Character Identify Instinctively Know
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There's nothing wrong with acknowledging the panoply of life's rich experience.

Life Nothing Rich Wrong
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You can't control your mind. Why would you want to?
Control Mind Want You
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I've made so many mistakes. But it is my feeling that you learn from failures, so I welcome them as often as I can.

Failures Feeling Learn Often
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Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.

Breathing Cliche Day Down
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Maybe the best things about celebrity are the things like being able to get that seat on the plane that you wouldn't normally get, but that's kind of like cheating.

Being Best Celebrity Cheating
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If my work was good enough, I would never have to do publicity.

Enough Good Never Publicity
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You become tyrannized by this notion that women must not only be treated equally, but they must never fail.

Become Equally Fail Notion
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Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film.

Film Games Nature Options
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I don't know how anybody gets better at anything aside from doing it.

Doing Aside Better Anybody
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A lot of times passion projects or films are difficult to make because they don't have proven directors attached to them.

Attached Difficult Directors Films
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Humility is considered an un-masculine quality.

Considered Humility Quality
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I enjoy trying to figure out the best way to compliment the picture and not overpower it.

Picture Compliment Best Way
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I don't believe in a conspiracy to hide the existence of extraterrestrial life.

Life Existence Hide Conspiracy
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Without whining and without making myself a tragic figure, there is no replacement for the loss of your privacy. It's a huge sacrifice.

Figure Huge Loss Privacy
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I love animals and I love working with them because they don't lie.

Lie Working Animals Love
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I don't like watching people work if they're making art.
Art Like Making People
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In this age of media and Internet access, we are much more talkative than ever before.

Internet Media Talkative Access
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Sometimes the better the writing, the harder it is to play because you really want to service it.

Service Play Better Harder
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It's always like you write a poem when you can't really say what you're trying to say.

Trying Poem Write Really
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You can go through life and actually speak your mind and do it in an articulate fashion and with a really intelligent point of view.

Point Intelligent Fashion Articulate
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Privacy is something I have come to respect. I think when I was younger I wanted to tell everybody everything, because I thought I was so damn interesting. Then I heard the snoring.

Snoring Interesting Respect Privacy
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If you're smart, you'll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there'll always be somebody who's never read a book who'll know twice what you know.

Learn Never Read Smart
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Generally, I don't like to walk out of a movie. It's like a relationship - you want to see it to the end; otherwise, you won't know if you left early or not.

Early End Know Left
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Sometimes the better the writing, the harder it is to play because you really want to service it. It's hard to be that quick and articulate in life. You've got to try to make it seem discovered, you know, not rehearsed.

Discovered Articulate Hard Quick
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Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.

Life Comedy Who think Tragedy
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The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

Whole secret Life Profoundly Thousand things
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Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!

Begun Half done Courage Wise
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We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third, of public ridicule; to a fourth, of poverty; to a fifth, of loneliness ... for all of us, our particular creature waits in ambush.

Playthings Our fear Physical pain
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When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.

People Weed Own mind Overrun
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The curse of modern times is, that almost everything does create controversy.

Modern times Everything Create controversy
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