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I just wanted to be one of those actors who works at the National Theatre the whole time.

I had no idea how to make it as an actor. But I knew I wanted to.

You know, I really wish now I'd had the nerve to become an actor. Because I'd have been Robert Redford, no question.

I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from 'Empire of the Sun,' who'd never made a movie before.

I was never really a character actor - I was a leading man who was always cast as a character. I wanted to be Jack Nicholson or Jean Gabin.

Trust me, it has been anything but easy to make it as an actor.

I think, before 'Watchmen,' I was the guy from 'Grey's Anatomy' who's a pretty good guy, a pretty charming sweet guy, and so as an actor, I really wanted to do something as far from that as I could.

The Lone Ranger is going to be one of those iconic characters that never rides off into the sunset. We need heroes like him - an underdog who fights the good fight, doesn't kill, and has some serious mojo when the chips are down.

I always wanted to be an actor. I always wanted to be John Wayne.