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It was the moment I learned acting is not acting out. After that light went on, I spent the rest of my life trying to figure out how to make other people realize it.

Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just trying to get in and you're given so little time to get in gently, but it's always hard.

People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't.

Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.

The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done.

The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact.

What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement.

I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.

David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists.

But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all.

Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.

Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.

All I know is that my best work has come out of being committed and happy.

I am so thrilled by the privilege of life, and yet at the same time I know that I have to let it go.