I felt as if I was the brunt of some massive joke at my expense: Can you believe this loser can be connected to Marlon Brando and Katharine Hepburn? But through the years I have learned to tolerate and sometimes embrace the idea. People have asked me if I consider it an honour. Well, all it indicates is that I've been in a lot of movies with a lot of people. And besides that there are plenty of other actors that would work.

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A good director creates an environment which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.

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The greatest justice in life is that your vision and looks tend to go simultaneously.

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Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes, and for your failures. You can't go blaming others, or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure is a cancerous way to live.

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There are two types of actors: those who say they don't want to be famous and those who are liars.

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Things could be worse. You remember that, and you go on with your life.

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I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to be a good guy, a bad guy, a victim, an abuser. There are all kinds of people in the world, and playing them is what acting is all about.

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You have to keep the fights clean and the sex dirty.

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Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.

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I think of being an actor as kind of a young man's gig. It's emasculating, in a way, people messing with you and putting make-up on you and telling you when to wake up and when to go to sleep, holding your hand to cross the street. I can do it up to a certain point, and then I start to feel like a puppet.

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Everybody's got bills to pay. Sometimes you see people just go straight for the money, and that's disappointing.

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I have a natural swagger.

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I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance.

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I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.

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I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings.

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I'd love to be a pop idol. Of course, my groupies are now between 40 and 50.

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Music is a soundtrack for your life. You hear some tune and you just get swept right back to that point in your life.

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I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood.

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I try to show compassion to people I come into contact with and try to put good out, as much good as I can. But that's my life; that's not my work. With my work, my job is to walk in another man's shoes.

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When I go home, I try to raise my children with honesty and integrity and teach them to take care of the world and of each other.

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I'm obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books.

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