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I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that.

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I had a house burn down once, and everything in life burned, except my family, and it was so liberating. I didn't have a bad moment about it. It sort of reinvigorated my interest in a lot of things.

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The major studios are by and large banks, and they give you what is by and large a loan to make a movie. Like banks, they want their money back plus.

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I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth.

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I don't consider myself specifically political, you know? I think of working as an actor as being a human thing. The concerns I have that fall into politics are human concerns.

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I just want real creative freedom without worrying about, you know, car payments.

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In my teens, I fell in love with the movies.

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When I was growing up and somebody like Robert De Niro had a movie come out, it was a cultural event. Because he had such a confidence and a single mission that was so intimate.

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In school, I was a genius of the year preceding the year I was in, every year.

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Selling a movie feels like a hustle to every bone in my body. Many actors have careers dominated by modeling. They're all over the place. It turns me off. People who are good at what they do ought to practice something bigger.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: August 17th, 1960

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