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"Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare."
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"Don't spoil me with your lies, love me with your truth."

"I do not say words, which you want to hear.The words just told me, to write them down."

"I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself God's enemy."

"I don't want to make people mad. I just... well, how can people get better if you don't tell them what you honestly think?"

"98% of the things said by a drunk man are true, 98% of those said by a horny man aren't."

"People on the worldly path, to them 'we' say, 'Practice complete honesty. If you cannot do that, then practice honesty within principle of limits. If you cannot do that and if you practice dishonesty, do it within limits. This principle is indeed what will take you further ahead."

"Honesty is not the same as truth. That is the obstacle of the notion of relative truths. I would like to put my trust in the lunatic. He is the one least concerned of what I think of him, the mark of an honest man. I can always depend on him to be completely honest in what he thinks and feels, about anything, no matter the consequences laid before him, however with no course of rationale, I cannot necessarily take his word for even the well-being of him in his own reality."
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"I've become so earthy. And I never was earthy. I'm doing all kinds of different roles which are not at all like the intellectual and the legal mind of Ben Stone."

"Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare."

"I was born first to music. But I went into acting because my father knew so much about music he intimidated me. So, I picked an art form, he knew nothing about. So I could be my own man."

"If they want to talk about aliens and anything like that... that's part of the gift God gave us. That's what makes life exciting. We're pretty stuck, you know. What gives flight to our life is our imagination."

"When I got political that blew our marriage out of the water. I was not the same person and I admit that."
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