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One of the top comments I get from people is, 'Oh my God, you're like a regular person!' That's kind of a bizarre thing to live with. I know a lot of famous people, and their lives may not be regular, but they are regular people.

Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.

The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.

I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal.

Why do we wait for tragedy to strike to tell someone how special they are, or how special they were?

Normal people - i.e., people who aren't actors - are the most bizarre people you can ever come across. I'll talk to someone and come away thinking, 'They are clinically insane.'

The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.

I've always been more drawn to being normal than being famous.

I just am who I am. And then when people label me eccentric or different, I'm kind of astonished because I think, 'This is completely normal. This is just how I am, it's how I've always been.'

Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.