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It's always flattering when somebody you really respect and like wants you to be involved in their project - let alone writes a part with your voice in mind.

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Voice, Mind, Always, Writes

Honestly, one of my favorite things about a director is when they understand what an actor brings to their role.

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Director, Role, Honestly, Favorite Things

How precise you need to be when you're in a comedy, and the honesty you need and to have those two things meet up and have the execution just right, I always found very difficult.

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Execution, Always, Very, Precise

I would love to close my eyes and see myself with my girlfriend when we're 99 years old and I have a pipe and she's knitting a sweater, and I hope that's the way it goes. I think it's a challenge every day.

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Love, Every Day, I Think, Sweater

As corny as it sounds, I'm often pinching myself going, 'What great opportunities and great parts and great people that I've gotten to work with.'

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Work, Going, Gotten, Pinching

Probably the best part about being an actor is that you get to be a traveling wanderer.

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Actor, Part, Wanderer, Best Part

I did a lot of small black-box theater in New York when I was starting out. I'd get a group of actors together to do workshops and readings. And I ended up directing three or four productions.

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Small, Three, Out, Readings

I'm lucky to just be a working actor. There are so many great actors out there and I'm just lucky to have gotten work.

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Work, Lucky, Gotten, Working Actor

Ultimately, making movies, if you don't have a big star, it's hard to do. Or if it's not a star director.

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Star, Big, Making, Big Star

For the longest time, I was always like a guy that people would think they went to high school with. They'd be like, 'How do I know you?' After, we'd play a guessing game. I'd say, 'I'm an actor,' and they'd go, 'Oh, what have you been in?' I'd list my credits, and they wouldn't really remember me.

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Game, Play, Been, Credits

'The Mindy Project' is really best when you're loose, and we improvise a lot, and that's what's best.

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Project, Improvise, Lot, Loose

The main thing about doing a comedy is that you spend most of your days really happy and laughing.

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Doing, Comedy, Main Thing, Laughing

A lot of acting, as I grew up wanting to do, is kind of like magic... I'm not comparing myself to him in the least bit, but if you knew what Daniel Day-Lewis was doing every step of the way and what he was eating, I don't think when he popped up as Lincoln we would quite believe it.

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Magic, Doing, Wanting, Daniel

What's monotonous about being an actor and often makes me want to throw in the towel or drive a car off a bridge is the auditioning - the waiting around.

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Waiting, Want, About, Bridge

I love 'Boardwalk Empire.' I really love that world. I love that style. I love all the actors on it.

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Love, World, I Love, Empire

Doing something like 'Damages,' I played a character with post-traumatic stress. I was playing with sleep deprivation. I was not sleeping; I stayed up for three days at a time, drinking Red Bull. I would get shaky and tired and hyper.

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Doing, Three, Damages, Red Bull

I think Aaron Sorkin is like Shakespeare. When you go through it, there is a rhythm and clues all over the place of how it should be played.

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Think, Through, Over, Clues

You don't get to rehearse much on TV. You are kind of rehearsing on film. Depending on the way you work, that's either a good thing or a bad thing.

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TV, A Good Thing, Rehearse, Rehearsing

When you do a movie, you shoot, and then you go away. A lot of the times you walk about from the movie, you say, 'Oh, I get that scene now... Oh, that whole ending - I wish I could have done another shot.'

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Movie, Away, Another, Shoot

I think as an actor, you're constantly putting yourself out there, and a lot of times failing - and failing in front of a bunch of people - and sometimes you have a good moment and something clicks.

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Think, I Think, Putting, Clicks

There's been a lot of times that I thought I'd never work again; I was really bummed out.

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Work, Thought, Been, Bummed

I haven't watched a lot of television, but when I was kid, I watched 'All in the Family,' and I liked Archie and Edith a lot.

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Television, Kid, Lot, Watched

One of the interesting parts of being on a television show is you often don't know the fate of your character until you're reading the script. I always look forward to finding out.

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Fate, Television, Always, Script

My mom was a dance teacher, so she put me in dance school when I was a kid. I did everything. I used to take ballet.

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Mom, Kid, Used, Ballet

The truth is really funny. It's uncomfortable sometimes, it's dramatic sometimes, but it's really funny. Life is funny.

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Truth, Sometimes, Truth Is, Uncomfortable

Well, it's always strange to kiss someone with 10, 20, 40 people around.

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Someone, Well, Always, Kiss

I am a big fan of movies from the '70s.

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Movies, Big, Fan, Big Fan

I don't know if women gravitate toward me, or I gravitate toward them.

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Me, Know, Toward, Gravitate

When you go to a college for acting, at least the college I went to, it's like everybody just singing and dancing and acting, and they all come together, and everyone's talking about head shots... It just turned me off. I was like, 'What is this? I don't understand this. People are singing in the hallways.'

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College, Dancing, Everybody, Shots

I was in a movie called 'Before & After' with Meryl Streep. I was edited out of the movie, but no one told me. I think I was 18 or 19 years old. I sat across from her and asked her every question about acting. I completely embarrassed myself.

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Movie, I Think, Before, Meryl

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