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I don't know what to say about it except Tom Hanks is a great person, a serious person; he's dissatisfied in a very likeable way, in a very discreet way, and Steven Spielberg is similar in his discretion and drive. But Spielberg is calm. He's this driven filmmaker and visionary. He really is.

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Visionary, Very, About, Tom

I was an anomaly because my father was a Harvard man, and he came from a family of poor people.

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Father, People, Poor People, Anomaly

It was dog food. Beef livers with onions in a can. You open it up and it looks like vomit.

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Looks, Like, Dog Food, Onions

I have an idealistic approach to acting. I want to be great at it, but you can't be great if the scripts are not there and the director doesn't know what he's doing.

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Doing, Want, Director, Idealistic

Whatever it is, if you draw, you paint, you're a carpenter, you play football, the more you do it, you're a journalist, the more stories you write, the more people you interview and navigate your way through these different personalities to get your story, the better you're going to get at it. Acting's no different.

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Play, Through, Paint, Play Football

I'm from Detroit. I was from a kind of violent neighbourhood.

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Kind, Detroit, Violent, Neighbourhood

I wanted to get on with my life when I was 16. I knew I wanted to be an actor. I wanted to get out of Detroit.

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My Life, Actor, Wanted, Detroit

I used to blame my problems on other people. But my moment of clarity, if you want to call it that, came when I was looking in the mirror one day and just burst into tears. It wasn't just that I looked bad, it was that I knew my problem was me.

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Mirror, Tears, Other, Burst

I read for 'Reservoir Dogs,' and it got down to me and Buscemi, and Quentin couldn't make up his mind. I really wanted that part, but Buscemi is great in that. I also got really close on 'Gladiator,' but Ridley Scott decided on Russell Crowe, who's perfect in it.

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Perfect, Part, Got, Gladiator

I have tried to make decisions to work with great directors, with good scripts, and that makes the pickings real slim.

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Work, Directors, Makes, Good Scripts

I'm essentially a momma's boy with a good education.

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Education, Essentially, Good Education

I weighed 190 when I got to boot camp, I came out at 178. I ate only the beans and tomato sauce.

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Tomato, Sauce, Weighed, Camp

My family is very discreet. White-shoe, you know?

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Family, Know, Very, Discreet

My wife and I are a team, and it's good for my work because I'm interested in working from a stable base.

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Work, Team, Wife, Base

I was a wayward kid, a rambunctious and angry teenager, but I found acting as a fifteen-year-old.

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Angry, Kid, Found, Teenager

When I was a teenager, you wanted to go to the movies. Go and see 'Mean Streets,' go and see 'The Conversation,' go and see 'Taxi Driver.'

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Go, Streets, Taxi, Teenager

Acting is never done. We're trying to keep it real and make sure that you're entertained and it seems unrehearsed.

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Real, Done, Sure, Entertained

I want to do 'Company of Heroes 2,' if they do it. It depends on how the movie performs, but they hope it will perform well. They have a franchise on their mind, and if it's a franchise, man, I'm going to be a very happy person.

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Very, Performs, Franchise, Happy Person

I play tough guys in movies and behaved like one in front of the press because I thought that was what a man did.

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Thought, Play, Like, Behaved

Although I get so much fan mail from Great Britain, tell me, am I more famous there than Michael Madsen?

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Famous, Mail, Britain, Great Britain

I like Michael Bay a whole lot. And Jerry Bruckheimer. But I love Ben Affleck as a person, as a director, as an actor.

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Love, Director, Like, Jerry

I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going.

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Always, Lot, Read, Novel

Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don't choose to see Horror movies as a rule.

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Reason, Why, Horror, Being Alone

I don't know if people know that Sylvester Stallone is one of the most decent gentlemen that I've ever met. He's the most consistent friend I've ever had.

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Consistent, Had, Decent, Gentlemen

I have thin skin. I'm not a tough guy.

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Skin, Tough Guy, Guy, Thin

I think being a movie star is about whether an audience can watch you and care about you.

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Think, Audience, I Think, Movie Star

Katherine Heigl was a movie star. I thought she was going to be one, and it was fun to watch this young actress getting better every day.

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Star, Movie, Actress, Movie Star

I used to be very rigid because I just wanted to get through it. Now, if I think a scene should go a certain way and it goes another, I'm able to go that new way with ease.

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Through, Ease, Very, Rigid

It used to be the case that studio executives like Robert Evans, Darryl Zanuck, and David Selznick would put aside money for what they wanted to be great movies regardless of whether they would perform well with the box office.

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Box, Used, Studio, Box Office

We get second chances. We get 19th chances.

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Get, Second Chances, Second, Chances

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