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At our best, it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year, so there are some clunkers.
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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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The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
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The Whole Wide World is the first movie I've ever produced.
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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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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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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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All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.
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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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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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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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This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.
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Our show is different, because it's not about law and order, it's about psychology, the intent of somebody.
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