It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn't look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy - I mean Jimmy as the character.

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If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money

If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money

When does she do all this thinking? We're together all the time but she thinks...

When does she do all this thinking? We're together all the time but she thinks...

I've never tried to manipulate my image.

I've never tried to manipulate my image.

I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger....

I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger....

I've been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I'm nominated as...

I've been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I'm nominated as...

After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that...

After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that...

It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because...

It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because...

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of...

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of...

If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money.

If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money.

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be...

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be...

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you...

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you...

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not...

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not...

Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them...

Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them...

If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money

If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money

I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I...

I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I...

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of...

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of...

Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after...

Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after...

I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.

I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.

I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time...

I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time...

You wouldn't want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was...

You wouldn't want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was...