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• ‟ I think some of my favorite Australian films were shot by people that are not Australian. And I think when Dean Semler did 'Dances with Wolves,' for instance, that's a very different-looking Western than what you've seen much of before. It's very rich, color-wise. But we've got our own very proud thing going on.

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• ‟ You can certainly extend your adolescence. There's people that are very good at extending it indefinitely.

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• ‟ The people I've encountered who are really dangerous in my life don't go around with their fangs drawn - they are dangerous because of the way they interpret what's going on.

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• ‟ One of the things that I found very confronting in my early working life was that people thought I was some sensitive doe-eyed lovelorn boy, because they'd seen me do that a couple of times. What tends to happen is you get a run of similar roles.

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• ‟ I never felt like someone who was boyish and coming to terms with asking girls out or anything like that, which was what 'The Big Steal' and 'Spotswood' were about. But I guess that's the impression I left on people.

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• ‟ It's got a lot more room for nuance and an assumption that people have started from the beginning. 'Bloodline' ends up being like a really good novel.

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• ‟ It's a tougher gig than what people think it is. The proper, real, genuine, worldwide movie stars don't get a lot of downtime from the world outside. That's a tougher price, I think, than what people's fantasy of fame account for.

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• ‟ The people that impress me are Bob Dylan. The ones who keep working, year in and year out, and keep coming up with stuff.

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• ‟ I suspect, for a lot of people who become actors, there's a feeling of wanting to be someone other than who they actually are.

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• ‟ I wanted to keep working because work was essentially fantastic - you got to be around people, you got to be in a family, and that family changed from job to job. It was like being in the circus.

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• ‟ I generally feel like people that are doing the wardrobe know more about wardrobe than I do, and they have an overview.

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• ‟ I'm very well known in the industry and relatively well known by people who are aficionados and what not, but outside of that - no.

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• ‟ 'Animal Kingdom' was an amalgam of two people that I had met-slash-known, not particularly well. They were both very, very scary people for very different reasons.

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