” The issue for my character, and the issue of the show is, how dirty do your feet have to get without suffocating yourself in the mud in order to get an inch of what you really want done? “
” With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in. “
” You don’t want to become one of those Hollywood idiots who is just blathering about anything. “
” You don’t want your credibility banana to turn brown, but you do want to speak out about what you believe in. “
” You need to be real enough to be believable, but you don’t necessarily have to be real enough to be real. There is a distinction. “
” One of the most surreal moments in this election was after the third debate, when I heard a talking head say, Al Gore won on substance, on the issues. But you have to give the victory to Bush because he seems presidential. “
” Love means never having to say you’re a zero. “
” When you act, you’re always playing a version of yourself. You can’t bring more to the role than what you are. “
” Whatever you do, make sure you want to write more than you want to be a writer. Make sure you want to act more than you want to be an actor. That is what will sustain you. “
” I grew up in Wisconsin. It’s not like growing up in New York or L.A., where you know somebody’s cousin who does this. It was in the back of my mind, but I would never say that I wanted to be an actor, but as I look back, I was in every play I could possibly be in. “
” Juilliard was four years, and I called it ‘med school with guaranteed unemployment at the end.’ And it ends: you’re getting ready to go out and be an actor, and… nothing. “
” Being an actor, you always feel like you’re swimming upstream. People are going, ‘No, they don’t like you. They don’t like the way you look. They don’t like how old you are. “
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