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When I was a kid I was very interested in the idea of the will, finding out what you're capable of. I liked those kind of challenges.

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In films you do a scene, you play around with it and unless you're doing a lot of reshooting, which no one has the luxury to do, you deal with the problem for a day and then you move on. On some level, it never allows you to go very deep into what performing is about.

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The bad things about theatre get balanced by the good things in film and vice versa. So to tell you the truth, I love it when I can go back and forth - it feeds different parts of you and exercises different muscles.

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It's true in the beginning I started playing villains, and I think that's pretty clear, because if you don't conventionally look a certain way and you've got a certain kind of presence when you're young, then what's available to you is character roles, and the best character roles when you're young tend to be villains.

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I was watching 'Wild at Heart,' and I can honestly say I did nothing for that apart from show up!

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I'm an optimist. I hope if a movie's good that it will be a success, but as we know, that's not always true, just because of popular taste, advertising, distribution patterns - there's lots of reasons.

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Film is an editor's medium. You can create very good raw material and they can make it horrible, or you can do not so well and they can make it beautiful. You don't really know.

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Plenty of bad movies are very successful, and plenty of good movies are not. And distribution is so crazy, some films won't even get their day in court.

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I love theaters. I love the event of going there and seeing a movie with a lot of people. I like the community coming around the story.

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You can be intuitive when you've got a more expansive role. You can get into the poetry of telling the story rather than just pushing buttons.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: July 22nd, 1955

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