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You go through stages in your career that you feel very good about yourself. Then you feel awful, like, 'Why didn't I choose something else?' But overall I'm pretty satisfied that I made the right choice when I decided to be an actor.

Well, I'm never happier than when I'm acting.

I like this other world, this forgetting of myself. The actor works in order to escape, not to find himself. You become an actor by leaving yourself, and then you have to keep acting. How tragic!

I think the reason I'm an actor is the joy I find from escaping and going to be somebody else. That's what I have fun doing.

I love being an actor, especially in movies, because you get to be someone else.

I really love being a character actor.

I have to admit I've rarely been happier in my life. I have been absolutely thrilled to be back in New York and living a block from where I grew up. Just to be back in New York and, quite honestly, away from Hollywood has been an absolute thrill for me. I feel like I'm a real actor again.

As actors, you like to think about the luxury of having choices in your career, but for the most part you kind of take whatever comes your way and hope that you carved out something that you're proud of in the end.

That's the joy of getting to be an actor - getting to play all kinds of different roles and showing so many different sides of yourself.

I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be.