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I always had an actor within me.

I went from being totally unknown and never acting professionally to being in a major movie and being very famous. It all happened so quickly, I didn't have any time to work things out. It's been pretty scary at times.

I think I may have become an actor to hide from myself. You can escape into a character.

I was very introverted. I had glasses and was kind of weird. A lot of actors are pretty weird people.

Sometimes people know I am an actor but are not really sure what I have been in.

I had glasses and was kind of weird. A lot of actors are pretty weird people.

I'm a character actor - always have been, always will be - and historically, character actors don't come into their own until later in their professional and chronological lives.

I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I had to decide early on whether I was to be an actor or a personality.

I once did a role which I couldn't rehearse in my street clothes, I had to have the character's costume on before I could rehearse it. I just couldn't think as the character unless I looked like him, or I knew that I looked like him.

What once was an expression of who I was - acting - also became my hiding place.