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"I've never been one to sit back and go, 'I'd better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don't want to lose them.'"
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"When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that."
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"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center."
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"There was a time when people said, 'Jim, if you keep on making faces, your face will freeze like that.' Now they just say, 'Pay him!'"

"It's hard for anybody who's been with me not to feel starved for affection when I'm making love to my ideas. Maybe it's not meant for me to settle down and be married."

"Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority."

"I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny."

"What I have in common with the character in 'Truman' is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started."

"I'm the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it's still about the work."

"I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I'd love that. But I don't need to be. I just want to be here. That's it."

"Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity."

"Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them."
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