 As we're bombarded with the imagery that we are and now, post 9-11, it's hard not to get hardened by the world and the amount of violence that's allowed to be shown to kids these days. |
| I like to disappear in the parts I play. |
| I don't want to feel like I'm stuck doing one-stock performances. |
| I had to work on a Marlin boat, like gutting fish, like as the bait boy. |
| I still feel like I'm trying to make it. It's hard to shed the struggling actor thing. |
| Also, stick around. Don't lose your heart, just keep going, keep at it. |
| The problem to me is violence. It's not cool to kill somebody or hurt people. |
| I was bartending for a long time and going on auditions and was constantly being rebuffed. |
| I think we've all been kind of... everyone's been hurt, everyone's felt loss, everyone has exultation, everyone has a need to be loved, or to have lost love, so when you play a character, you're pulling out those little threads and turning them up a bit. |
| This country consumes more pornography than any other country in the world. |
| I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself. |
| Literally, I think I've quit acting three or four times, only for a few days. Maybe for a few weeks. |
| I live a bourgeois life. |
| But, the relationships that I see work - As long as they're telling the truth, and saying the things that you don't ever want to have to say to another human being. |
| Yeah, there's a tendency to get pigeonholed in Hollywood. |
| I've just been more interested in doing film right now and I don't want to go away from my family for six months, which was what I would have had to have done if I did the play on Broadway. |
| I didn't really have any interest in producing anything. |
| And my mother caught wind of this. She never had really tried to guide my career or really had any say in my life as an adult, but this was the one time she said she would never speak to me again if I quit acting. |
| My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave. |
| We're warriors, this culture, and we're very puritanical about sex and very embracing about violence and I don't know why that is. |
