I think I've been in situations where they looked at me and just see some rich white guy - they don't see me at all.

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I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion.

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Yeah, I made it. It sneaks up on you. You're some schmuck and you wake up one day and you go, Good God, I'm the cheese.

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If I like the story and it's well written, and it's a character I want to play and they'll pay me, then I decide to do it.

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There are some older women out there who are just knockouts, real beauties, and they're not getting the roles they should.

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When Fargo came out, I hired a publicist for the first time in my life. I thought, if ever I was going to make it, that was then.

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I was a dog in a past life. Really. I'll be walking down the street and dogs will do a sort of double take. Like, Hey, I know him.

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I think theater is powerful. The best experiences I had in the theater are more powerful than the best experiences I had in movies.

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When I was in New York, I was making a living. We had a summer house and a car that I could put in a garage. That's something for a stage actor.

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Oh yeah, that's the Holy Grail, Pirates of the Caribbean. Johnny Depp, he's the real deal, isn't he? He doesn't get the girl, and he doesn't care.

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