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Let's point out the elephant in the room: Actor bands are not notoriously successful enterprises. I can't think of any.

I get pretty attached to the majority of the characters I play. I can't help myself.

The stage is a routine. It keeps you grounded, like a metronome. I find that soothing.

I don't pick my roles by genre; that's kind of silly.

I've always been happy just to be working. It doesn't really matter for me how many people are familiar with my name or my picture, or whatever.

If Mother Theresa went to Atlantic City, I don't think she'd start playing Blackjack.

People don't go to the movies to get the news, people don't go to the movies to learn a lesson. People go to the movie to get an emotional experience.

I just keep working on things I like, and hope for the best. I hope people enjoy them.

Everybody's constantly being destroyed and rebuilding themselves, some more drastically than others.

When you put your costume on and you get your hair and your makeup done [for a role] and you stare in the mirror you feel like a different person.

Everything that happens on Wall Street only fortifies my opinion that there is in fact a more ludicrous industry than the entertainment industry.

If you give me enough time, enough leash, I can become pretty reasonable.

I never went into acting to be able to scare everybody. If I'd wanted to frighten people, I could have joined the C.I.A.

That's one of the great things about acting - you get to pretend you're somebody else, which is great if you get bored with yourself.

I like to play characters that get to do it all - to have a bit of comedy here and a bit of pathos here and a bit of suspense here, that's what's fun.

A lot of times the characters I play tend to be kind of loners or they don't have best friends or best buddies.

If you don't fight the system, you can either take advantage of the system or let the system take advantage of you.

You got to know what's worth keeping and what's worth letting go.