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“One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself” quote by Ed Harris — Download Open image

“One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself”

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I like to act with people that know what they're doing.

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Hippy, you think everything is a conspiracy. Everything is!

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I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.

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I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely…

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I hope to direct a few more films before I leave the planet, so I hope I can find the material.

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I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.

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When Bush first got elected, the very first time there was talk of going to war with Iraq, the mainstream media gave his position…

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I'm not an activist per se, but I have strong feelings about things. People can jump on celebrities for being ill-informed or naive, but…

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I feel like my place in this industry is still progressing.

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For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done.

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You look at a guy like Lance Armstrong, and you have to be inspired. I sat next to Kirk Douglas the other day, and…

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You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting

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I'm a big fan of all the Boston guys that are acting - Matt Damon , Ben Affleck, Mark Wahlberg - they made a great career out of it, and they found a way to do it and still be cool guys, so that's kind of where I want to be.

Acting is a grind, just like music is a grind. Sometimes it takes longer than what you can give.

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I can still function when I don't have that balance I crave. I had a tendency to be precious about acting, thinking of it as something mercurial that required all the right conditions, but now I know that even if I don't get any sleep, I can still work, I can power through. The stars don't have to be perfectly…

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Once I committed to acting, this has been it.

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