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- I try not in my films to deal with the blacks and the whites, I try to deal with the greys and ironies as well - because that's how life is.
- I think every young actor in Hollywood has to do a "get laid" film. It's a kind of rite of passage. You couldn't get into the union without it.
- If I didn't get the job, I didn't get crazy about it, I just thought, "Something's protecting me, I shouldn't have done that job."
- What I find the most frustrating is being labelled political because I really don't think that I am.
- Part of being an actor is to have the humility that you don't know it all, there are people who know more than you, and you can learn from them. Especially people you are about to play.
- In this vast universe, we can't be the only ones. The only planet with life on it, I can't imagine that to be true.
- The main reason I did this movie(mission to mars) was that my children wanted me to be in an action-adventure movie where I had a little figure made. I had turned down some movies that were too far from home in a distant location -- I tend not to do those. We were in a toy store and they saw the figure from that particular movie and said, "Dad, look what you could have been! Look! That could be you! Why didn't you do that?" I told them I would have been away for six or seven months and I asked, "Would you rather have me gone for six or seven months, or would you rather have the plastic thing?" They said, "The plastic thing."
- If you're walking down the street and someone asks you for money, it's hard to know if he's a junkie or if he's hungry. So what do you do? You buy him a sandwich.
- I never signed anything that said I give up my privacy when I become famous, Some people think that it's your obligation to talk to people you just met as if they were friends. I get embarrassed when I read stuff like that.
- I'd define a political person as someone that acts in a way for his one self-benefit and not for the benefit of others.
- I have an aversion to the word "political" because I don't consider myself political and I don't get involved in politics.
- There's always someone telling you not to do something. The main thing is just to ignore them.
- I don't want people to be inspired or offended by what I do. If you determine your behavior by what [other people] want, you're screwed.
- If you've got something to say about me, say it to my face. And then we'll either talk about it or fight about it.
- It's never easy, no matter who you are. Even Martin Scorsese has trouble putting his films together. There is always someone who will find a way to humiliate you or make you work for less or question your motives or find some fault with your movie or say: 'There's no commerciality in this project...
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