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» What kind of recognition do I deserve? I don't deserve any recognition.

» 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.

» And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor.

» I'll be working the rest of my life because I'm a character actor and don't have to worry about box office.

» The only thing I do worry about is that the more films I do the more visible I am going to become as a personality because of press and because of the sheer quantity of films.

» Like De Niro. He's one of the best character actors we have ever had.

» The more you are known, the more difficult it is to hide behind characters.

» This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.

» Then I did Mystic Pizza, just to do something I wasn't fat in.

» With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you improvise and create a character while the camera is rolling.

» It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.

» Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.

» If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.

» I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to.

» I've never tried to be something I'm not.

» No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing.

» And then, as the years went on, I just kept moving along, busting into doors and getting roles, until I started to actually believe that what these other people were saying was true.

» I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.

» 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.

» To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.

» 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.

» The Whole Wide World is the first movie I've ever produced.

» When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear.

» So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.

» But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.

» So a failed movie is not going to ruin my career.

» Unless you look like Brad Pitt, it's really hard to have full control of your character.

» When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.

» 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.

» It doesn't need to be a No 1 show, it just needs to be good.

» The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water.

» I want every episode to feel like we still haven't done this right yet.

» At our best, it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year, so there are some clunkers.

» They were all interested in what I was going to do, because I'd never worked in televsion before.

» Our show is different, because it's not about law and order, it's about psychology, the intent of somebody.

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