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Profession : Actor

Birth : June 1, 1948

I'm not going to make my living out of beating my head against somebody else.

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You don't do classics with a Texas accent.

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I've auditioned five or six times. I'm not very good at it.

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I come prepared when I come to work. Not just knowing the lines, but I think I know something about what I do.

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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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That joy of a creative environment, without any restrictions, is hard to leave.

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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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We're in the business of making films, not striking or anything else.

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I like to think of myself as fairly intellectual.

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If there is anything I am about, it is I want justice in society.

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There are more heroes than cops, FBI agents, and lawyers.

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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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There's something about playing the baddies that people like. They're more fun, and people tend to remember them, particularly if you do them well.

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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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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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Actors have far fewer choices than the public thinks they do.

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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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I like to do things that are about relationships, work with quality people, and tell a different kind of story.

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I've always felt if you followed a real private detective around, it would be boring.

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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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