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Thomas Jane, born on February 22, 1969, is an accomplished American actor. He is renowned for his exceptional performances in both films and television series, with notable roles in 'X-Men' series as Victor Creed and 'Lost' as Chuck Lockhart.

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“When I was doing character films, I would always try to find something to subvert the standard. You know, to play them exactly for what they are. That's the fun for me.”

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“Sharing the same vision for what's on the page is always a good idea. The director's job is to establish what that is and make sure that everyone sticks to it when it comes down to actually executing it.”

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“Establishing what the vision is and being able to stick to it is the job, and everyone should be on the same page, going in. With that said, first-time director or not, you never know what you're going to get.”

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“Great directors turn in mediocre work and first-time directors turn in exceptional work. No matter how good a person can talk about what he wants, you never know.”

Knows Want Firsts Persons Matter Turns Directors First Time Mediocre Exceptional

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“You just have to go with a good story and a script that you like and people that you like to work with.”

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“We're in the doing business, or acting business and creating business. We're not in the results business, so we don't have any control over what the result is.”

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“I like to imagine that all the choices you make during the day that you're doing a particular scene are going to feed into the creation of that scene. It's not a movie-by-movie or a part-by-part basis. It's a day-by-day thing, and sometimes an hour-by-hour thing.”

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“Most actors have a process that they can go through, that they rely on, or that they've discovered, and that can evolve from project to project.”

Actors Process Projects Evolve Rely

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“I don't like to stick to one formula. That gets boring. I get bored, so I want to try different ways of getting inside something.”

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“I do know that people tend to do their best work when they're challenged and stimulated by their peers.”

People Knows Peers Best Work

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“Anything that has to do with noir and space, I'm gonna love. When you've got a noir-ish, pulpy detective in a science fiction show, I'm all in, in that regard.”

Shows Space Fiction Regard Science Fiction Detectives Noir

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“Creating a world in a sci-fi show is almost the whole battle. If you have a great story and you can create a great world, as far as the acting goes, it makes my job a whole lot easier.”

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“Television is kind of restrictive in its directing, but it would be nice to get some chops doing TV.”

Kind Would Be Nice Television Tvs Being Nice

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“If I have things my way, over the next few years, I'm going to be doing a lot more directing and a lot less acting. That will be fun for a while.”

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“I think all good drama is funny. All the best drama is ultimately very funny. Life is funny. You can't have any honest treatise on life without bumping into some humor.”

Thinking Life Is Honest Drama Funny Life All The Best Good Drama

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“Stuff that happens to you in your life when you're shooting a TV show, you have to be careful, because it might end up in the show. And that's what I think is the neat thing about TV: how alive it is, and how the writers respond to the stimulus that they're getting from the actual actors. Whereas a movie is more hermetically sealed.”

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“I like filmmakers where, if their film comes on and you step in halfway through it, you can recognize that, hey, this is a Coen Brothers film. Or, hey, this is a Stanley Kubrick movie. You can recognize some filmmakers. Like, if you put on a Sam Raimi movie, you can tell that it's a Sam Raimi movie pretty quickly. I like a signature style that people can recognize and relate to, and connect with. I think that is part of why we seek out certain directors. We want to see how they view the world.”

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“I'm of the mind that life is a risk. Every time you leave your house it's a risk, and I see no reason to go through life with my hands tied behind my back for any reason. I'd be foolish to let something stop me from doing what I love to do.”

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“When I was a kid out here in L.A., I was homeless, I didn't have any money and I was living in my car. I wasn't averse to going down to Santa Monica Boulevard and letting a guy buy me a sandwich. Know what I mean?”

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“To me, it's the kiss of death when you start winking at the audience as an actor. I just never liked it. I don't like it when we do monologues, looking into the character.”

Character Actors Audience Kissing Kiss Me Monologues Winking Kiss Of Death

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“I think what makes us human is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human.”

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“If I stay alert, then I can challenge myself, and by challenging myself, that helps me to stay alive and to hopefully take something away from the experience.”

Ifs I Can Helping Challenges Alive Hopefully Help Me Staying Alive If I Stay Challenging Myself

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“I can't stand to see myself act. It just makes me cringe.”

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“I just have a respect for my audience. That seems to be pretty logical.”

Seems Audience Respect Logical

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“Earlier on in my career I felt that I had to hide behind a lot of different masks, and showboat ways of performing. Now, that's a lie. The less I have to hide, the less I have to act.”

Way Different Lying Felt Behinds Careers Performing Mask

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“I still collect comics. I still have a great love and respect for the genre.”

Stills Genre Great Love Love And Respect

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“I want to make movies that I want to see, and what I miss and I'm not seeing.”

Want Vision Seeing Missing

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“I'm interested in the impact my movies have on people and how it affects them, and what they like and what they don't like - and what they take away from it. What leaves an impression, you know?”

People Knows Impact Impression

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“I'm a really huge fan of the old romantic comedies from the '30s and '40s... Huge fan. I love all that stuff.”

Stuff Comedy Fans Huge

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“I wanted to make a fan film for a character I've always loved and believed in - a love letter to Frank Castle & his fans. It was an incredible experience with everyone on the project throwing in their time just for the fun of it. It's been a blast to be a part of from start to finish - we hope the friends of Frank enjoy watching it as much as we did making it.”

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“I spent a lot of years just learning my craft and falling down in front of the camera.”

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“Harrison Ford - one of my favorite actors - has a wonderful sense of character and depth and uniqueness to him, yet he's able to just deliver the lines without putting any English on it.”

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“I'm interested in people that don't always do the right thing, its much more akin to what I know about life.”

People Knows Right Thing

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“It's not that the film is violent, it's that people have an issue with violence right now.”

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“Most of my career up until the last couple of years has basically been a training ground for me. Actors that came up in the '50s and '60s, they had the theater, and television was in its infancy.”

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“My dad was an entrepreneurial businessman, and maybe I got some of his ability.”

Ability Dad My Dad Businessman Entrepreneurial

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“People lose people, we lose things in our life as we're constantly growing and changing. That's what life is is change, and a lot of that is loss. It's what you gain from that loss that makes life.”

People Life Is Loses Loss Our Lives Growing Gains

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“Some of the supporting roles that I've done as an actor, I took them because I knew that I would get to watch some of the leading guys in the movies, and also I'd get to work with them.”

Done Guy Actors Roles Watches Supporting Roles

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About the Author

Born: February 22, 1969
Known for: Actor
Quotes: 38

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