"Octopuses have hundreds of suckers, each one equipped with its own ganglion with thousands of neurons. These 'mini-brains' are interconnected, making for a widely distributed nervous system. That is why a severed octopus arm may crawl on its own and even pick up food."

-- Frans de Waal

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“De Niro was a hero of mine. And Sean Penn. But I've realized I can't operate at that level of intensity. That's okay for movies. On TV, when you live with horror day in and day out, you have to protect yourself.”
“If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.”
“I was often getting hired to play sociopaths and psychopaths and stuff, which is really funny.”

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“In a lot of ways, the make-up was the character”

Source : "Die Another Day - Meeting the villains" by Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.
“It's nice to be playing a character who's never had a live-action version before.”
“A conservative frame of mind is very limiting for an actor, and a human being, too.”
“When we're hurting, it does not give us a license to hurt others.”
“I wasn't in school often enough to really belong to a 'clique,' but my friends all studied hard and got pretty good grades. They were good people with self-respect. I still like to be friends with people I admire something about; I really believe that we become like the people we're surrounded by, so I choose my friends carefully!”

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