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My mother is quite a woman. She would push me, and when I got tired of her pushing, I'd say: 'Leave me alone. Don't push so much.'

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I think everyone is very surprised at how 'Matrix' has become the pop culture phenomenon that it is.

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I've played a lot of bad guys, 'cause that was the only work I could get. People saw my face and went 'oooh'.

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Special effects are characters. Special effects are essential elements. Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they aren't there.

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Mine were informal mentors. They were all in my working life.

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I play characters. I don't think I really have a persona per se. I don't play the same guy every time. I show up, you don't know what I'm gonna do. I like it that way. I've intentionally tried to do it that way. I think that's what's interesting.

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It's funny, a lot of people think I take myself seriously because I come off so serious sometimes. But it's not that I take myself seriously, I take what I do seriously.

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I came up around people who took acting seriously, who cared about acting, cared about the theater and, in the '70s, made movies that said something that mattered. I came up with those people, and I was a kid. Their ethos and credo became mine.

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When I first read 'Boyz,' I cried. It could have been about some kids in Warsaw, Poland. I knew it was good, but I had no idea what it would do to me.

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It's nice to get the feedback from a theater audience. It's a gas.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: June 30th, 1961

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