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If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character.

You don't look at it as the size of the role. Quantity is not the point. You can be as thorough in 30 seconds as you can in three hours.

David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists.

I was held hostage and almost executed by a man who was robbing us in the middle of the night.

I very much prefer the balance in a scene to standing out and so you have to make a decision.

And I don't want to use my troubles as an example of what to do and what not to do.

I just looked at him because I want to be looking in someone's eyes when I die.

You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.

The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact.

Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study.

All I know is that my best work has come out of being committed and happy.

The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done.

Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.

Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.

Also CSPAN is really the great treasure of the media as far as getting information.

I need six weeks of rehearsal and women need nine months and it took me 15 years to figure that out.

It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.

But it's also another myth to think that you should be as tight as a drum and not have any frailties or fragilities.

I am so thrilled by the privilege of life, and yet at the same time I know that I have to let it go.

I listen to XM radio because I can get so many overseas news stations.

The thing is David is also aware of everything and it's not like you're going somewhere the director is not.

I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people.

The greatest single human gift is the ability to chase down our dreams.

What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement.

I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.

The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright

I demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either.

People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't.

I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process.

I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily.

Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.

But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all.