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I was raised a proper Southern boy.
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Proper
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You don't do classics with a Texas accent.
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Accent
Classics
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I like to think of myself as fairly intellectual.
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Fairly
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I was raised a Democrat, and now I'm an Independent.
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Democrat
Independent
Raised
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There are more heroes than cops, FBI agents, and lawyers.
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Agents
Fbi
Fbi Agents
Heroes
Cops
Lawyers
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If you're down, it's curse; if you're up, it's a blessing.
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Blessing
Curse
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Actors have far fewer choices than the public thinks they do.
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Fewer
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I've always wanted to play a hard-boiled gumshoe, as they say.
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They Say
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The first 10 years I was a professional actor, I did Shakespeare.
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Actors
Firsts
Years
Shakespeare
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We're in the business of making films, not striking or anything else.
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Anything Else
Striking
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The office of the presidency is what's important, no matter who's in it.
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Presidency
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I'm not going to make my living out of beating my head against somebody else.
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Beating
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That joy of a creative environment, without any restrictions, is hard to leave.
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Creative
Environment
Joy
Creative Environment
Leave
Restrictions
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Any of us can sort of say we would do any number of things to feed our children.
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Feed
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I've always felt if you followed a real private detective around, it would be boring.
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Detective
Followed
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I think Im pretty politically informed, and I find myself watching Senate hearings on C-SPAN.
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Hearing
Senate
Thinking
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I think I'm pretty politically informed, and I find myself watching Senate hearings on C-SPAN.
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Senate
Informed
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I was the first one in the family, on either side, to go to college - much less graduate school.
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Graduate School
First One
Graduate
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Everyone has this vision of Jones as a maniacal ogre. Wrong. He was charming, sweet, and a fabulous speaker.
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Charming
Fabulous
Maniacal
Ogre
Speaker
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When I'm out there, it's just me. Nobody's controlling me, and I can do whatever I want to do. I'm my own man.
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Man Me Nobody
Controlling
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I like to do things that are about relationships, work with quality people, and tell a different kind of story.
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Work Quality People
Different Kind
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Sometimes, I feel like directors look at me and say, 'I want to put that boy in the jungle. I want to hurt him.'
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Jungle
Look Me Sometimes
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We have real cliched ideas of what prison life is like. It is not a happy place. It's a desperate, sad situation.
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Desperate
Cliched
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If I rob a gas station, I'm going to get 15 years. If I steal $400 million on Wall Street, I start plea-bargaining.
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Gas
Rob
Gas Station
Steal
Wall Street
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I wanted to be in The Emerald Forest. I chased that one for six months before it all came about. I wanted to work with John Boorman!
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Emeralds
Forests
Six Months
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I wanted to be in 'The Emerald Forest.' I chased that one for six months before it all came about. I wanted to work with John Boorman!
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Months
Six
Chased
Forest
John
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One thing that's thematically consistent in 'Sin City' is that all the performances seem to be of the same genre, like we're singing the same song.
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Consistent
Sin
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Some stars can make five or six failures in a row and continue to work - with a raise. I can't figure how that works. Maybe foreign sales or a smart agent.
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Agent
Row
Sales
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We all want to pretend that there isn't evil in the world. We all want to pretend that there aren't people trying to take us out and different things like that.
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Different Things
Pretend
World Evil People
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I've had presidents in my lifetime - and I'm old enough to have seen several - that I really detested, but they're still my president. I've had presidents that I've really liked.
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Lifetime
Detested
Old Enough
Presidents
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I'm really enjoying the character now, but I don't want to just be Philip Marlowe. I wouldn't mind playing him every couple of years, perhaps, as a kind of open franchise - you know?
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Philip
Enjoying
Franchise
Just Be
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Since I've had some success, story and character are always the two elements I think about first in material presented to me. Some of my choices have been more successful than others.
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Elements
Presented
Success Story
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It's never a matter of career decisions. I don't think in those terms. What matters is whether a role is interesting, if I will enjoy playing it, and if I'm confident I can do a good job.
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Good Job
Interesting
Decisions
Good Will Matter
Confident
Matters
Terms
Role
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When 'Deadwood' came along, it was totally like Shakespeare. The long speeches were like soliloquies. If one phrase of a monologue was out of whack, the entire one-page speech didn't work.
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Deadwood
Monologue
Phrase
Shakespeare
Whack
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I've been fortunate in my career to have the opportunity to pick and choose the parts I play. I've also been lucky to always be involved with quality actors, quality directors, quality writers.
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Fortunate
Pick And Choose
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I have always been attracted to good scripts and try hard to make characters as believable as possible. That means trying to figure out how they would react to situations, what they eat, think, and feel.
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Believable
Scripts
Good Always Feel
Attracted
Figure
Good Feel Always
Good Scripts
React
Situations
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I got a lot of flak; in Texas, football is not only the social thing you must do, but you do it also to prove your manhood. They all couldn't conceive of why I'd want to stop to do 'The Importance of Being Earnest.'
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Earnest
Importance
Manhood
Texas
Conceive
Flak
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Before I accept a job, I always talk to folks about it. Why does he kill these 22 people? If they say, What difference does it make? I know we have nothing more to talk about. A character has to be three-dimensional.
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Jobs
Character
Differences
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Before I accept a job, I always talk to folks about it. 'Why does he kill these 22 people?' If they say, 'What difference does it make?' I know we have nothing more to talk about. A character has to be three-dimensional.
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Folks
Character People Nothing
Character People Always
They Say
Three-Dimensional
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