And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor.
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But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.
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I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.
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I'll be working the rest of my life because I'm a character actor and don't have to worry about box office.
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I'm a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after Mystic Pizza, not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route.
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If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.
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It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
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It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.
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Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.
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My partner Dan Ireland wants me to direct, and I read a lot of scripts - some good enough that I could see myself. But then it's like, so what? Who cares? Let someone else direct it.
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No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing.
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People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round and round. Then something will hook them and take them to their end and they can't control it.
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So a failed movie is not going to ruin my career.
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The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water.
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The more you are known, the more difficult it is to hide behind characters.
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The Whole Wide World is the first movie I've ever produced.
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Then I did Mystic Pizza, just to do something I wasn't fat in.
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This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.
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To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
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What kind of recognition do I deserve? I don't deserve any recognition.
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When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear.
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When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.
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