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I lived in Texas for 10 years.
I generally play strong people and scary people.
I don't mean to be highfalutin about it, but I try to limit my visibility.
I don't have actor training myself.
For me and for I'm sure any actor, each role is a different challenge to prepare for in a different way.
Even the small amount of infamy I have makes me uncomfortable - on a personal level and on a professional level.
Certainly I've had the experience of thinking a person was one thing, and finding out they were another.
A lot of times, you just don't get the jobs you want to get.
I don't think there are in life, pure darkness or pure light. Everyone's got a little of everything.
My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.
As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.
It's nice to sometimes get things out of life, rather than stealing from other artists. I'm trying to steal from the real people.
For the last 20 years of my life, I've had the mantra to do amazing parts with amazing people in amazing projects, so I'm attracted to good story, writing and character and good people. That's what I'm always searching for and I don't think that's ever going to change.
Hitchhiking was such a pure form of existence. You'd wake up in the morning, and you'd have no idea what your day was going to be. And that's something I've never been able to shake. I loved that.
It's much more interesting to watch someone who is ill-equipped to solve their problem fight to solve their problem than wallow in the knowledge that they're ill-equipped to solve their problems.
As an actor you have to have a strong vivid imagination as you're working and when the camera's rolling, but there's certainly a part of you that is aware of real life, that you're making a movie.
If a musician wants to be an actor, everyone thinks that's pretty cool. But if an actor wants to play a song, even if they've been doing it for 40 years, that's bad news.
The only thing I do on a computer is play Texas Hold 'Em, really. Obviously my cell phone is a computer. My car is a computer. I'm on computers every day without actively seeking them out.
I'd said to my sweetheart a couple of days before that the SAG and Spirit Award nomination was amazing and I had no attachment to the Academy Award. I knew I was an underdog so I just decided to sleep through the announcement.