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When my dad died a lot of songs came, and they're still coming.

Came Coming Dad Died
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The new record started out being about loss, but it's morphed into being about how relationships go on even though one person is not in a body anymore.

About Anymore Being Body
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If a relationship is founded on love it doesn't end.

End Founded Love Relationship
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I found it was really impossible for me to write songs when I couldn't sing.
Found Impossible Me Really
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I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish.

Accents Different Irish Italian
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Because I was starting out in my 20's. I wanted to do it on my own. I didn't want to use my dad or have people say I was using him.

Because Dad Him MyOwn
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Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

About Achieve Foot Game
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It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were.

Based Doing Figure Film
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When we were doing 'Freaks and Geeks', I didn't quite understand how movies and TV worked, and I would improvise even if the camera wasn't on me. I thought I was helping the other actors by keeping them on their toes, but nobody appreciated it when I would trip them up. So I was improvising a little bit back then, but not in a productive way.

Actor Appreciated Back Bit
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I think it is wrong that we went against The U.N. and that we have alienated our allies and invaded a country that hasn't threatened us, that it is a pre-emptive strike.

Against Alienated Allies Country
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But I don't want to die! I have so much to do!

Die Much Want Do
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If the work is good, what does it matter? I'm doing it because I love it. Why not do as many things I love as I can? As long as the work is good.

Because Does Doing Good
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The general view is that actors start on soaps and then maybe graduate to prime-time television or film; normally you don't see a film actor going to do a soap.

Actor Actor Film General
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Not having any real direction, one writer would lead me to another.

Another Any Direction Having
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When I went to film school about three years ago, the first two years you're required to make a series of short films. I started making films based on short poems.

About Based Film Film School
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One of the things I've learned as a filmmaker is to have some aspect of the movie be something that I admire greatly, whether that's an actor I'm working with, the subject matter, or a book.

Actor Admire Aspect Book
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If I'm working on a film, I'll do sit-ups for before I shoot. Like, 100 in the morning or something.

Before Film Like Morning
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There's a tendency, when you're directing yourself, not to give the performance as much care, because you feel like there's too much focus on yourself, or that all these people are just standing around setting everything up, waiting for you.

Around Because Care Directing
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When I was starting out, doing guest spots on TV, and even commercials, I would go in with a whole crazy wardrobe and some terrible accent. Obviously, I was doing too much. If you bring too much flavor to it, it's absurd. There's something to just being spontaneous.

Absurd Accent Being Bring
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No, my step-daughter just opened a theatre school for children, I have another daughter who works in the record industry and another who is going back to collage and I have two little ones at home.

Another Back Children Collage
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You work really hard to make it, and maybe you get some acclaim, but then you realize there are certain limitations as an actor.

Actor Certain Get Hard
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War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves.
Idiocy Live Others Ourselves
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I do not believe in terrorism, violence, destruction, murder, pre-emption, or War.

Believe Destruction Terrorism Violence
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I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate.

Choose Desire Emotions Energy
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I don't go on vacation. I don't really need vacation.
Go Need Really Vacation
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I feel like because I've done more gay characters, gay scenes, or gay projects than most straight actors, people see it as some sort of mission. It's more of a case-by-case basis, and just trying to capture figures that I love. I guess that a lot of the figures that I love were gay.

Actor Basis Because Capture
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Every person's every action has an effect.

Action Effect Every Person
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I don't make demands. I don't tell you how it should be. I'll give you options, and it's up to you to select or throw 'em away. That should be the headline: If you're insecure, don't call.

Away Call Demands Give
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I really feel sorry for people who are, who divide their whole life up into 'things that I like' and 'things that I must do.' You're only here for a short time, mate. Learn to like it.

Divide Feel Here Learn
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If I don't get the goose-bump factor when I'm reading it than I can't do it.
Factor Get Reading Than
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Some of the things you read you get an immediate reaction to so I've stopped reading things now. I do worry about my family though. Some people do try some nasty things to get at them and try and get a reaction from them.

About Family Get Immediate
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Reality is, I'm an actor and an entertainer, and I really wouldn't know what to do with another profession.
Actor Another Entertainer Know
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There has to be a mathematical explanation for how bad that tie is.

Bad Explanation How Mathematical
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Like everyone else, I've had moments when I've felt that I've been losing my grip.

Been Else Everyone EveryoneElse
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I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.

About Attractive Because Committed
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I'm going to try to not let anyone put me in a box, and that certainly applies to the things I do outside of acting.

Acting Anyone Box Certainly
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I used to read a lot about myself and the projects I was doing. When I was only acting, I wouldn't read any reviews because I didn't find them to be very helpful.

About Acting Any Because
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In the end, I do have a group of friends and teachers whose opinions I respect, and so I guess I just have to be content with their feedback.

Content End Feedback Friends
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Because acting was my only professional outlet, I put a ton of pressure on the roles that I did. I overstepped my bounds, I tried to control things that were out of my purview as an actor and in some cases even tried to direct my scenes because I felt I knew how they should run rather than trust the director.

Acting Actor Because Bounds
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I don't cast somebody that I think is like my younger self.
Cast I Think Like Self
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My job is what I love. I don't need an escape from it.

Escape I Love Job Love
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I might have to stumble a little bit more in public than others, but that's fine, I don't mind, I've developed a thick skin.

Bit Developed Fine Little
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I acted professionally for about eight years, and I was writing all that time but never showed anybody any of it. There just came a point after those eight years when I thought, 'There's a lot I can do with acting - there are a lot of things I can express and do creatively, but there are also limitations.'

About Acted Acting After
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I guess what I enjoy most is directing, because it incorporates all aspects of filmmaking. Directing is in the same line as acting - both are popularity contests, and in both you're trying to tell a story through the film as a medium.

Acting Aspects Because Both
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When I sign on for a project, I'm there to give the director all the material he or she might need to tell their story, and that's the number one priority.

Director Give He He Or She
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School allowed me to have outlets so that some of the pressure was taken off the acting. Every role in every movie, I used to live or die by. Once I had these new outlets, I relaxed a lot more.

Acting Allowed Die Every
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I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs.

Animals Be Kind Care Child
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I became a connoisseur of that nasty thud a manuscript makes when it comes through the letter box.

Became Box Connoisseur Letter
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I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.

Against Carefully Cats Cheek
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I love writing about my job because I loved it, and it was a particularly interesting one when I was a young man. It was like holidays with pay to me.

About Because Holidays I Love
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